A man gets vaccinated against COVID-19 in HCM City (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – Ho
Chi Minh City plans to complete the of people at risk from COVID-19
by January 20 while pressing on with rapid testing for this group.
On January 12, the municipal
Department of Health ordered district-level steering committees for COVID-19
prevention and control to continue for the risk group from
January 17 to 22 and encourage locals to conduct self-testing and report
results to communal-level health stations.
They were also told to
swiftly access and care for those with a positive rapid test result and
complete the vaccination of people in the risk group by January 20.
Earlier, HCM City launched a
campaign aimed at protecting people of the risk group, which consists of those
aged over 65 or having underlying health conditions, so as to minimise the
rates of infection, patients in critical condition, and fatalities. The initial
phase was carried out from December 7 to 31, 2021.
The city made a list of
639,972 people of the risk group, 25,642 or 4 percent whom haven’t been inoculated.
Meanwhile, 5,437 people or 0.8 percent have been infected with the coronavirus.
During the campaign,
unvaccinated people have been persuaded to receive the jabs at home or
healthcare establishments while COVID-19 patients received antiviral drugs for treatment.
This has helped reduce patients in critical condition and deaths.
Health workers tend to a COVID-19 patient (Photo: VNA)A meeting of the Health
Department on January 12 pointed out that there are more than 300,000 patients already
recovering from COVID-19 in HCM City, and they still need healthcare.
Deputy Director of the
department Nguyen Anh Dung cited data from the Gia Dinh People’s Hospital as
showing that from December 1, 2021 to January 10 this year, 1,021 people
recovering from the disease went there to receive check-up, with most them
showing tiredness, breath shortness, and depression.
Post-COVID-19 conditions are
reported in not only serious or elderly patients but also in younger ones aged
30 – 40 or having mild symptoms, he noted, adding that these conditions affect not
only their health but also their work performance and socio-economic aspects.
Facing that fact, the Health
Department has built a healthcare strategy for those with post-
conditions that includes a three-level model. The first level comprises
grassroots medical stations caring for people in mild condition while the
second are district-level hospitals in charge of the ones in moderate condition,
and the third are specialised and general hospitals for those in serious
condition./.
Source: VietnamPlus
