900 staff members of the HCM City Hospital for Tropical Diseases will be the first in the southern region to be injected with AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on March 8 (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA)
– Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health announced on March 6 that 900 staff
members of the municipal Hospital for Tropical Diseases will be the first in the southern region to be injected with COVID-19 vaccine on
March 8.
The selected medical personnel are those directly contacting
with, treating, or caring for people classified as risky sources of COVID-19
transmission.
The hospital is chosen as it performs inoculations for people against communicable diseases on a daily basis, thus having experienced human resources
for the work. Meanwhile, since the beginning of pandemic, the hospital has been
a core establishment for treating severe cases and sent staff to support other
treatment facilities in the city and the central region.
On March 5, the municipal Department of Health submitted to the
Ministry of Health’s General Department of Preventive Medicine a list of the southern
economic hub’s nine prioritised groups for the first s.
medical staff who are treating COVID-19 patients at hospitals, 388 members of local
contact tracing teams, 1,362 members of epidemiology investigation teams, 600 from the army, 1,042 from the police force, and 513 working
at quarantine sites.
Vaccinations using the recently imported AstraZeneca vaccine
is expected to begin in Vietnam on March 8, according to the Ministry of Health./.
Source: VietnamPlus
