The Ministry of Health (MoH) has sent warning to provincial and city-level health departments, hospitals and health centres about the need to strengthen the monitoring of weather forecasts from the National Meteorological and Hydrological Forecast Centre and the implementation of medical examinations for people. 

As the Northern and Central regions have been sweltered for weeks, hospitals have received huge influxes of patients who suffered from heat-related illnesses.

The hot weaher has brought more patients to hospitals in Hà Nội in the past week due to exhaustion and summer diseases.

The Ministry of Health plans to start giving measles vaccine to children in their sixth month instead of the ninth, Deputy Health Minister Nguyễn Thanh Long has said.

According to the Hà Nội Preventine Medicine Centre, from the beginning of the year, some diseases like whooping cough, measles, rubella, dengue fever, and streptococcal infection have seen a trend of increased occurrence in the city.

Chairman of the Hà Nội People’s Committee Nguyễn Đức Chung has asked the Hà Nội Electricity Company not to cut power during the ongoing hot weather.

A handmade cooling device – one of the best selling products for low-income earners in cities can cause negative impacts on users’ health and household appliances, engineers and health experts warns.

Hà Nội health authorities have taken precautions to prevent epidemics and diseases that frequently occur in the period over spring and summer during the hot weather.