China News Service, Xining, December 25 (Reporter Zhang Tianfu) The Qinghai Provincial Health Commission announced on the 25th that the province has successfully completed the special three-year mission of endemic disease prevention and control, and achieved the goal of controlling and eliminating key endemic diseases as scheduled.
The person in charge of the local disease office of the Qinghai Provincial Health Commission stated that the province’s endemic disease prevention and control organization and management are in place, and the funding investment is strong, and more than 60 million yuan has been invested in endemic disease prevention and capacity improvement.
It is reported that Qinghai Province has strengthened the monitoring of the iodine nutrition status of students and pregnant women, and the investigation of the water iodine content and the current status of thyroid diseases. It has continued to implement free iodized salt intervention measures, and has distributed 4,000 tons of free iodized salt to key areas and populations to ensure the iodine nutritional level of key populations. The iodine nutrition of the population in the whole province is maintained in an appropriate state, and there have been no new cases of cretinism for 11 consecutive years.
At the same time, continue to implement the rural safe drinking water project to control drinking water-type fluoride (arsenic) poisoning, complete the water improvement of 346 drinking water-type fluorosis-affected villages and 22 high-arsenic water source villages, and completely solve drinking water fluoride (arsenic) For the problem of exceeding the standard, the drinking water fluoride (arsenic) content meets the national standard, and the number of drinking water-type fluorosis disease areas has dropped to 328, and no new cases of arsenic poisoning have been detected.
In addition, Qinghai implemented measures to improve infant nutrition in 3 Kashin-Beck disease districts and counties, relocate, relocate people, and change planting structures to keep people in the diseased area away from the disease-causing environment. No new Kashin-Beck disease has been detected for 10 consecutive years. Case.
At present, the survey results of tea-drinking endemic fluorosis show that 43 counties (cities, districts) in the province are all endemic areas of tea-drinking endemic fluorosis, and the harm to the population is serious.
In order to implement the prevention and control of endemic diseases, Qinghai Province issued the "Drug Treatment Plan for Kashin-Beck Disease and Skeletal Fluorosis Patients in Qinghai Province", established designated endemic disease treatment hospitals at all levels, and included all patients with current illnesses under management, and prevented the generation of poverty and return to poverty due to illness. It can effectively improve the healthy living standards of farming and pastoral areas.
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