Thực trạng nhu cầu chăm sóc sức khỏe của học viên cai nghiện ma túy tại một số trung tâm chữa bệnh lao động xã hội TP. Hồ Chí Minh

Research on 2,800 persons at seven medicinal centers of labor and society education in Ho Chi Minh city showed that health care needs of students with drug addiction is huge: - Number of times the average sickness in a month before the survey was 0.8 times per student. Structure diseases as followed: osteoarthritis patients: 23.0 percent, respiratory diseases: 22.9 percent, ear, nose and throat diseases: 19.6 percent, gastrointestinal diseases: 19.3 percent; Oral diseases: 14.5 percent; cardiovascular disease: 8.3 percent. - There are 31.3 percent students who have tested HIV/AIDS (+). Through outpatient examination in 2006 and in 2007, the rate of student with drug addiction have diseases are respectively 38.2 percent and 52.7 percent.