FUNCTIONS AND DUTIES

 

1.       The study of medical biology including microbiology, immunology, and epidemiology of infectious diseases.

2.       The direction of epidemic control: plague, cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever, Dengue haemorrhagic fever, Japanese encephalitis… and the implementation of various national health programs in 19 southern provinces and cities.

3.       Providing health services: clinical laboratory analyses, immunization, dispensary services, and laboratory analysis for food hygiene-safety.

4.       The production of vaccines (B.C.G. vaccine and rabies vaccine) and bio-products for diagnosis of various bacterial and viral infections.

5.       Postgraduate training on microbiology and collaborating with the University of Medicine and the Public Health Institute in the formation and education of microbiology, immunology, epidemiology for the scientific inheritor cadres of the Institute and the southern preventive medicine system.

6.       International collaboration in disease control, scientific research and formation.