Over 2,000 medical devices and supplies transported to HCM City

At HCM City’s COVID-19 intensive care hospital (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – More than 2,000 have been transported to a field storage serving prevention and control activities in Ho Chi Minh City – the country’s current largest pandemic hotspot, and other southern
localities.

Under the Prime Minister’s direction, the was
established at Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City on July 17, expecting to keep
about 2,000 ventilators of different types.

The facility has to date stored 125,000 N95 masks, 14,500 sets of protective gears, and 12 million medical masks.

This week, the Ministry of Health will transport 560 high
flow oxygen systems sponsored by enterprises to the storage, which has already stored
60 systems.

Meanwhile, to treat severe cases, the ministry has worked
with HCM City’s authorities and decided to set up a 1,000-bed COVID-19 intensive
care hospital, which is located at the city’s oncology hospital.

A medical worker works at ‘s COVID-19 intensive care hospital (Photo: VNA)

So far, the city has recorded 48,863 infections. The city is piloting home quarantine for F1s. F0s without
symptoms are quarantined at their places of residence.

On July 22, HCM City began the fifth phase of its
large-scale COVID-19 vaccination campaign with 615 injection sites across the
city. The campaign is scheduled to run within two weeks with more than 930,000
vaccine doses to be administered./.