Deputy Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son talks to medical workers at Cu Chi hospital (Photo: VNA)
HCM City, (VNA) – Deputy Health Minister Nguyen
Truong Son led a special task force for COVID-19 prevention and control to
inspect the at the Cu Chi hospital in Ho Chi
Minh City on February 11.
The hospital is treating 43 COVID-19 patients, including 32 cases
related to the cluster at the luggage handling company in Tan Son Nhat airport.
Director of the hospital Nguyen Thanh Dung reported that since the
pandemic first broke out in Vietnam one year ago, the hospital has treated 177
COVID-19 patients and quarantined more than 800 F1 cases. Staff members are mobilized
from other hospitals in , and work in shifts, with 40 people for each
shift lasting five weeks.
Deputy Director of the municipal Health Department Tang Chi
Thuong praised the hospital for excellently fulfilling its tasks, helping
reduce the workload for other hospitals in coping with COVID-19.
Deputy Minister Son hailed the great contribution of medical
workers of the hospital, who are working hard to care for patients during the
Lunar New Year festival. He wished them a happy new year, and asked them to stay
prepared for any circumstances even though the number of new cases in
the city has begun to drop recently./.
Source: VietnamPlus
