Vietnamese Ministry of Health said that the government has approved to spend over 140 billion Vietnamese dong (US$7.87 million) from its state budget on fighting the current A/H1N1 flu in Vietnam, the local newspaper New Hanoi reported on Tuesday.

Of the sum, about 130 billion Vietnamese dong (US$7.3 million) will be allocated to purchase medicine equipment, tamifludoses, and set up isolated wards for treatment of A/H1N1 patients, said Nguyen Huy Nga, head of the Health Preventive and Environment Department of Ministry of Health.

The National Steering Committee on Preventing Human Flu Epidemic warned of the complicated developments of the A/H1N1 in Vietnam, saying that the flu would be likely spread wide in other localities.

The warn followed three confirmed human cases of A/H1N1 flu in Vietnam. Of the three, the first 23 year-old Vietnamese case was said to have shared with other 188 passengers of a United Airlines flight coded UA 869 coming back from the US. These 188 passengers are now living in 24 cities and provinces nationwide.

The two recently reported cases were a Vietnamese mother and her son. The 41-year-old mother and her nine-year-old son came back to Vietnam on May 26 on the flight coded OZ731 from the California state of the United States, transiting in the Republic of Korea, said the newspaper.

The mother and son are being quarantined and treated at Ho Chi Minh City Tropical Disease Hospital and Children Hospital No.1.

The three A/H1N1 cases in Vietnam are now in stable health conditions, said local health officials.

(Xinhua News Agency June 2, 2009)