The General Department of Logistics and Engineering has established three medical teams to operate in three locations, including Linh Son Ward, Thai Nguyen Province, Yen Binh Commune, Lang Son Province, and Tien Luc Commune, Bac Ninh Province.
The primary tasks include coordinating with the military medical forces of Military Region 1 and the health authorities of Thai Nguyen, Lang Son, and Bac Ninh provinces to conduct disinfection spraying, environmental and domestic water treatment in residential areas, schools, medical stations, public spaces, and places where water has stagnated for long periods. The teams will also guide residents in collecting and burying waste and dead animals, as well as clearing drainage systems.
Efforts will focus on preventing common post-flood diseases such as acute diarrhoea, conjunctivitis, dermatitis, dengue fever, intestinal diseases, and waterborne infections.
Local communities will be advised to eat well-cooked food, drink boiled water, maintain personal hygiene, and avoid using contaminated water. Epidemiological monitoring will be carried out to ensure early detection, containment, and timely response to any potential outbreaks.
The teams will also work with local military medical units to organise mobile medical groups visiting isolated villages and residential areas to provide health check-ups, distribute medicines, and guide residents on disease prevention.
They will support localities in vaccination efforts, disinfection, and the distribution of medical supplies and preventive medicines, while ensuring medical support for units performing relief duties.
Speaking at the deployment ceremony, Colonel Le Van Dong, Deputy Director of the Department of Military Medicine, requested the three medical teams to act proactively and swiftly, arriving at the affected areas as early as possible to assess the situation and implement disease prevention measures without delay.
He expressed his confidence that, with thorough preparation and a strong sense of responsibility, the members of the three medical teams, together with Military Region 1’s medical forces and local health authorities, will wholeheartedly serve the people, delivering timely and effective medical assistance.
