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  • Vietnam - Increase in respiratory disease hospitalizations - cold weather

    Weather seasons change, children hospitalized jam jam

    Saturday, 17.12.2011 | 07:30 (GMT + 7)

    Cold weather changes suddenly, over a week or so, at the Children's Hospital in HCM City, children suffering from respiratory disease hospitalizations increased dramatically.

    Only in the two largest pediatric hospital specializing in Children's City is 1 and 2, each day there are about 1,500 to 2,000 children visit related to respiratory illness. Of these, approximately 400 to 500 children admitted to hospital inpatients. The patients are children with bronchiolitis, acute bronchitis bar, pneumonia, allergic rhinitis.

    Head of Respiratory, Children's Hospital I - said the number of inpatient children's department is now about 170 -180 ca.

    Forecast in the coming days when the weather is colder, the number of children admitted to hospital suffering from respiratory diseases will increase by 20% compared to the number of children hospitalized with current treatment.

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