The Da Nang Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has been established in the city based on a merger of some local public health agencies.

Vice Chairman Dung (4th right) and CDC’s newly-appointed Directors and deputy directors

The mergered units are the Preventive Medicine Centre, the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Centre, the Centre for Public Health Education and Training, the Centre for Reproductive Health, and the Centre for International Health Quarantine.

CDC is working under the direct management of the municipal Department of Health. It takes the responsibility for organising professional and technical activities to prevent and control epidemics, and infectious and noninfectious diseases; managing public health; as well as providing other healthcare services in accordance with the national law.

Mr Ton That Thanh, former Director of the municipal Preventive Medicine Centre, is appointed as the Director of CDC. Meanwhile, CDC’s deputy directors are Ms Tran Nguyen Thu Thao, former Deputy Director of the Centre for Reproductive Health; Mr Nguyen Hoa, former Deputy Director of the Preventive Medicine Centre; Mr Le Thanh Chung, former Deputy Director of the HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Centre; Mr Pham Truc Lam , former Director of the Centre for International Health Quarantine; and Mr Than Van Chin, former Director of the Centre for Public Health Education and Training.

Vice Chairman of the municipal People's Committee Dang Viet Dung remarked that the mergence of five centres into CDC was an essential step towards implementing the municipal government’s action plan to rearrange and renovate the organisational structure of local public agencies under the management of the municipal People's Committee during the 2018-2020 period.

Vice Chairman Dung also asked CDC to fulfil its assigned tasks and take more effective measures to timely prevent any possible outbreak from occurring in the city.