Electronic disease surveillance system inefficient due to poor reportingAll hospitals in the country are responsible for reporting about patients with infectious diseases through an electronic surveillance system to enable preventive health officials to take timely preventive action against their spread, but many hospitals fail to report accurately. Preventive health officials raised the issue at a conference on dengue fever surveillance in the south held in HCM City late last week. Besides, many dengue patients, especially migrant workers, did not know their own address meaning hospital staff could not report addresses, he said. The opposite too had happened, with a patient reported as testing negative, he added. An official from the Tien Giang Province Preventive Health Centre said many hospitals still thought that providing information about patients with infectious diseases through the electronic surveillance system was not their responsibility.

Source: VietNamNet News December 25, 2017 02:48 UTC