From Xinhua
HANOI — A total of 108 deaths have been caused so far this year by measles and its related complications among Vietnamese children in three large hospitals in capital Hanoi alone, instead of 25 deaths as in earlier report by Vietnam’ s Ministry of Health (MoH), local media reported on Wednesday.
Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, wearing glasses, visits the Central Pediatrics Hospital in Hanoi on April 15, 2014. PHOTO: Tuoi Tre
Tran Dac Phu, head of General Department of Preventive Medicine late Tuesday released the figure at a meeting with Vietnamese Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, who was in a study tour in Vietnam National Hospital of Pediatrics (NHP).
Tuoi Tre (Youth) online newspaper on Wednesday quoted Phu as saying that, among measles-related deaths reported in Vietnam as of April 15, some 103 were in NHP, four in Bach Mai hospital and the last one in National Hospital of Tropical Diseases.
The death toll did not include measles deaths in other Vietnamese localities, said Phu.
Le Thanh Hai, director of NHP, said at the meeting that 25 kids died at his hospital directly due to measles and 78 other deaths resulted from measles complications such as pneumonia, diarrhea, and co-infection with other diseases.
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