Medical centres told to step up COVID-19 prevention measures

The Ministry of Health sent a letter early this week to cities and provinces’
People’s Committees on strengthening supervision and promoting measures of
and control in health care establishments.

Heads of People’s Committees were told to instruct relevant agencies to carry
out measures of pandemic prevention and infection control amid the increasing
number of people infected with the disease across the country and the high risk
of infection in health care facilities.

Directors of health care establishments should continue to review, consolidate
and strictly implement regulations on disease infection prevention and control
measures and urgently overcome existing problems when detecting risks and
dangers in pandemic prevention, as well as list and follow up all on medical
staff, patients and cases related to urgent notifications of the Ministry of
Health.

Patients and medical staff with symptoms and those with an unclear
epidemiological history should be given early tests to ensure rapid detection
and timely quarantine.

Directors of medical establishments and heads of relevant units are responsible
for failures of pandemic prevention.

Previously, the issued a decision setting up five special
teams to inspect the COVID-19 prevention and control at medical facilities./.