MHHS - Increase Respiratory Disease Update | JULY 22 2026

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[00:01:07]Okay. The program uh will focus on current epidemological uh trends uh specifically on the purchases uh covid-19 and tuberculosis of public health response efforts and preventive measures for the community.

[00:01:27]uh Ministry of Health staff who will be here today during this talk show will be Miss Connie B Oong program managers for communicable disease uh unit and Loren Platau the chief of division of nursing ministry of health and human services.

[00:01:45]Did I say that right? Yes.

[00:01:46]>> Okay. Thank you. Okay.

[00:01:51]Uh as you all know, English is our official language. So we can do either or. Okay.

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[00:04:47]Ministry of Health and Human Services Communicable Disease public health [clears throat] division.

[00:05:25]Nursing. Chief nurse.

[00:05:42]Okay. [clears throat] experience.

[00:06:23]transmit from one person to another.

[00:06:26]Same thing with my problems.

[00:06:38]respiratory diseases.

[00:06:47]Let's talk about prevention.

[00:06:55]Appropriate way to protect yourself.

[00:07:10]prevention next to you. So what is therop appropriate way?

[00:07:34]Mask. I see.

[00:07:51]Why say I say im Not safest.

[00:08:20]Okay. Yeah. Okay.

[00:08:27]Prevention.

[00:08:31]Mask appropriate wearing of mask.

[00:08:56]I contaminate object mask facal.

[00:09:16]No, they are optional. You must see hospital.

[00:09:51]Private clinic. Private clinic.

[00:10:01]I see healthare providers clinic about it. It's available.

[00:10:20]Wear mask and protect yourself.

[00:10:26]Please follow our instructions.

[00:10:40]You sanitize and you pick one mask instruction.

[00:10:52]Okay.

[00:10:55]preventive prevention.

[00:11:03]Protect yourself at the same time.

[00:11:17]>> [clears throat] >> tuberculosis.

[00:11:29]Okay.

[00:11:42]Immune system for you.

[00:12:04]I see. Okay.

[00:12:08]Second paragraph service announcement.

[00:12:23]prevention.

[00:12:28][snorts] If you have a persistent and prolonged coughing for longer than two weeks, please visit your nearest health facility. Always wear mask when you do so. and when you are around others and practice these basic preventive uh measures. Cover your mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing. Okay, let's continue on. Wash hands and sanitize regularly. Stay home if you are feeling unwell. Yes.

[00:13:07]>> Okay.

[00:13:12]normal to you.

[00:13:18]Stay home. Assume what are getting worse than >> we encourage you to stay up to date with your uh child vaccination as well as pregnant mothers. Uh in addition patients with the chronic uh illness illness [clears throat] can can get their vaccination from the communicable disease uh clinic. Uh for more information about these uh diseases uh please uh contact the communicable disease unit at 4882450 or 4881757 uh regular hours or 7752822 are on call provider for vaccination status for pregnant women and children.

[00:14:05]Please call 4886445.

[00:14:08]Together we can stop the spread of respiratory diseases and protect the health of our community. Thank you.

[00:14:16]Okay. Did I say it right?

[00:14:18]>> Yes. Okay. [clears throat] Just provide and then we'll do the rest.

[00:14:23][laughter] [snorts] >> Okay. Okay.

[00:14:30]Either or884848 two times and he's busy with the other uh you know [snorts] uh listeners. So if you can get in touch with him and tell tell him that we are available, we're on the air.

[00:14:59]>> Okay. Remember to wear a mask.

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[00:15:52]Okay, go back a little bit.

[00:16:04]How many% of those people are Okay.

[00:16:36]Prolonged coughing.

[00:16:41]Common symptoms. If a person cough for two weeks or more, We're looking at questions.

[00:17:18]Okay.

[00:17:23]for Sunday or two weeks or more.

[00:17:41]Night sweats.

[00:17:50]for appetite.

[00:18:19]uh in a a very short time.

[00:18:23]And then X-ray Let's go back [clears throat] number 13. 13.

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[00:19:21]Yellow children.

[00:19:40]Important period and but will be it will be there for a very long time.

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[00:21:33]To protect yourself, it's best that you wear mask to protect yourself.

[00:21:46]Protect yourself.

[00:21:53]They're not going to put you in jail.

[00:21:55]Put your mask on. I carry my mask.

[00:22:01]They don't have to tell me because I know I see protect yourself.

[00:22:17]Okay.

[00:22:26]It's very cheap. It's not It doesn't cost you um put your mask the right way and properly wash your hands. Sure.

[00:22:35]Yeah. Yes.

[00:22:40]And like I said is not as much as maybe because it's not only the treatment which you could prevent yourself.

[00:23:03]mask wearing and uh proper hand hygiene.

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[00:24:05]Or over a year as as you remember.

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[00:24:37]Anyway, Lauren, chief, division of nursing and ministry of health.

[00:24:57]Program manager for communicable disease unit. Okay.

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[00:26:03]>> Okay.

[00:26:07]Any questions?

[00:26:09]Yes.

[00:26:11]Okay.

[00:26:15]You have list of things that you want to talk about. So continue on. Oh.

[00:26:20]Respiratory disease.

[00:26:40]transmission from humans to humans transmission.

[00:26:50]Okay.

[00:26:52]Incubation period 8 weeks or more months.

[00:27:03]Emphasize respiratory disease signs.

[00:27:22]with earlier say mask and proper hand the hygiene Chief nurses are vulnerable population.

[00:28:31]as of today increasing like you said.

[00:28:48]for back to your office.

[00:28:54]I get top three mainly heart disease.

[00:29:14]Why?

[00:29:25]>> High blood pressure, >> heart disease, heart disease.

[00:29:42]formunicable heart disease.

[00:29:54]>> Okay.

[00:29:58]Address vice president.

[00:30:05]Okay. I see.

[00:30:22]Prevention leading cause of death. [snorts] I seem community.

[00:31:20]Vulnerable population.

[00:31:34]Oh again prevention.

[00:32:04]exercise. Yes. And only not only exercise plus healthy eating. Oh, >> I see.

[00:32:12][laughter] They say, "You must burn what you put in.

[00:32:46]>> [clears throat] >> That's true education completely in this Like you said, at the end of the day, my time permission F forever.

[00:33:53]15, 20 years.

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[00:34:31]>> [laughter] >> Okay.

[00:34:37][laughter] Okay.

[00:34:51]Prevention TV 76.

[00:35:04]distance themselves away from paperwork.

[00:35:24]So much under the table.

[00:35:26]Anyway, [laughter] >> existence dangerous like Yes. interest like starting over the years and then symptoms. I see complications.

[00:37:10]complications later.

[00:37:36]They move around.

[00:37:40]Yeah.

[00:37:51]Correct me if I'm wrong.

[00:38:00]Epidemic Deadly worldwide epidemic.

[00:39:01]Keep it in mind when I have appropriate ask questions so I can use it.

[00:39:16]The way they explain it to me is worldwide.

[00:39:29]Okay. Anyway, prevention, respiratory disease.

[00:39:57]mask.

[00:40:08]for baby [sighs] call.

[00:40:29]I see.

[00:40:34]specific two weeks bathroom.

[00:41:02]Wash your hands. Prevent yourself from any other not only COVID but other diseases.

[00:41:10]>> So make it a habit.

[00:41:13]Wash your hand.

[00:41:20]>> Wash your hands. Yeah. M hand wash.

[00:41:29][laughter] Prevention.

[00:41:36]Prevent yourself from transmitting a disease.

[00:41:57]hospital.

[00:42:08]So make it a good practice and prevent yourself from transmitting communicable disease.

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[00:43:03][laughter] Okay.

[00:43:15]Okay, that's my poster, you know.

[00:43:22]>> Okay.

[00:43:30]Should I take >> ibuprofen?

[00:43:40]Again I pronounce that >> ibuprofen or morphine oh >> ibuprofen >> morphine >> ibuprofen >> ibuprofen okay okay [laughter] ibuprofen >> okay or something else for my symptoms you know highly educated >> [laughter] >> Yeah, he's educated.

[00:44:16]>> Yeah.

[00:44:43]Okay.

[00:44:55]Of course.

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[00:45:28]Forever.

[00:45:52]Is it safe to travel when you are developing these symptoms?

[00:45:58]She's safe.

[00:46:02]Fly from Guam to Taipei.

[00:46:06]First class right behind me.

[00:46:13][clears throat] 3 hours and 30 minutes flight.

[00:46:20]Question. Is it safe?

[00:46:24]I the symptoms of experience they have travel have their own policy or something like Yeah.

[00:46:56]I think to answer that Sayational public health. I say international.

[00:47:40]Yeah. international health regulations.

[00:47:54]I see a take responsibility of prevention is very good for airlines.

[00:48:08][clears throat] at the same I filter purify some sort of UV light kill those kind of flying around germs.

[00:49:08]right behind you.

[00:49:19]I get pressurized at the same time.

[00:49:30]Okay. Okay.

[00:49:33]foreign country. [laughter] [snorts] Okay. Okay.

[00:49:49]Is it safe to travel?

[00:49:51]>> Travel when you develop symptoms. Okay.

[00:50:00]Safe for who? M >> both parties.

[00:50:03]>> Both parties. Okay. The safest thing to do as a nurse makes it safe for me to travel because we cannot like we said before determine at this time because we don't know say what do you have and to travel.

[00:50:39]It's all up to you.

[00:51:03]Is it safe for me?

[00:51:15]Am I safe?

[00:51:17]>> Yes.

[00:51:17]>> To travel get worse or something like that.

[00:51:28]>> Medical person that before you travel do that.

[00:51:35]>> Okay.

[00:51:38][laughter] screen marijuana or something serious about it.

[00:52:03]Okay, put it away.

[00:52:20]question. How is TB tested and diagnosed?

[00:52:27]Time germs infection germs migrant worker Bangladesh public health.

[00:53:02]Oh, I see.

[00:53:18]positive based on the measurement.

[00:53:21]Next step of getting the X-ray there is something there.

[00:53:36]Today I said one day, two days and 48 to 72 hours after the skin 48 to 72 hours after that. Yeah.

[00:53:55]>> [snorts] >> First stage positive next along the way.

[00:54:19]There needs to be something for the role and then examination and determine X-ray or other test. So, vulnerable I see. I see. Because it it doesn't mean that it means immune system overex Okay.

[00:56:01]Next question. How long should you uh once once identify and you're positive?

[00:56:13]at the army. How long should you quarantine if you test positive for COVID 19?

[00:56:23][snorts] quarantine prevent prevention prevention.

[00:56:49]Good handy. Stay away from people if you're sick.

[00:56:56]Hospital advice. Follow them. Go home. Stay home.

[00:57:03]until you're better.

[00:57:07]If you must go somewhere, please wear your mask. Okay. Yeah. My answer to your question.

[00:57:35]something like that. I may be wrong.

[00:57:44][laughter] No more.

[00:57:48]You can be at your house. Okay, let's make this the last question.

[00:57:59]Uh should I read the name?

[00:58:03]>> Um yeah.

[00:58:04]>> Okay. Filton.

[00:58:06]Are there natural remedies also educated in in the prevention program like uh kung and garlic are simply said about their benefits and how about organic remedies and how to properly use them.

[00:58:36]a responder till um a home remedy or a local remedies.

[00:59:02]I'm not going to do this.

[00:59:05]>> Okay.

[00:59:06]>> I think I think nursing say local remedies prevention mask and properly clean your hands local remedies or remedies in general prevention and that's how you prevent yourself. But like uh what she said local I see.

[00:59:39]>> Okay. Um I was talking about [laughter] Okay.

[00:59:56]Okay. Okay.

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[01:00:28]It's educational program. So please every time when we have something like this, tune in and learn something new.

[01:00:36]Okay. So until next time, take care yourself and each other and may God bless you all. This is Affordab saying bye-bye now.

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