MoH orders tight medical quarantine controls at border gates
Health ministry orders tight medical quarantine controls at border gates
The Ministry of Health’s General Department of Preventive Medicine has instructed agencies to enhance quarantine checks at border gates to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases by cross-border travellers.
Medical quarantine at Huu Nghi International Border Gate in Lang Son province (Photo: baolangson.vn)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health’s General Department ofPreventive Medicine has instructed agencies to enhance quarantine checks atborder gates to prevent the introduction of contagious diseases by cross-bordertravellers.
In a document sent to the International Health Quarantine Centre, the Centrefor Disease Control and preventive health centres in cities and provinces, theDepartment ordered them to strictly follow medical quarantine procedures asstipulated in Government Decree No.89/ND-CP dated June 25, 2018 detailing theLaw on Infectious Disease Prevention and Control.
Accordingly, medical staff should enhance checks on travellers,vehicles and commodities passing through border gates in order to early detectand isolate suspected cases. They have also been asked to work with authoritiesat border gates to monitor smuggled poultry products without clear origin andtake preventive measures to stop such goods from entering the country.
Furthermore, communication efforts at border gates mustbe deployed to raise public awareness of dangerous and emerging infectiousdiseases such as Ebola in Congo, Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) inseveral Middle East countries, poliomyelitis in the Philippines, Myanmar andChina, yellow fever in some South American and African countries, and mostrecently severe pneumonia with undetermined causes in China.
More efforts are also needed to provide advice on preventive measures forpeople who come from disease-prone areas./.
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Medical quarantine at Huu Nghi International Border Gate in Lang Son province (Photo: baolangson.vn) 
