Additional 340 mobile military medical units sent to southern localities

At the see-off ceremony (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – The Military Medical University on August 23 held a ceremony to send 1,096 more to the south to help and other southern localities fight against COVID-19.

The delegation will be divided into 341 mobile military medical units.

Medical military officers and students of the (Photo: VNA)

They will take responsibility for collecting samples for testing, providing vaccination, giving medical care for those with common diseases and patients in quarantine facilities and at home, and other tasks at request.

Col. Chu Duc Thanh of the Military Medical University said that on August 21, the university dispatched  295 medics and students divided into more than 100 groups, to the southern localities, the country’s largest COVID-19 hotspots at present./.