On March 16, the Department of Health organises a drill for admitting patients at the second specialised hospital in HCM City for the pandemic, Can Gio Health Centre. (Source http://www.medinet.hochiminhcity.gov.vn)
HCM City (VNS/VNA) – Medical
staff at many hospitals around the country have been creative in fabricating
automatic devices as they take care of an increasing number of COVID-19
patients.
Employees of Thong Nhat
Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh district make automatic hand sanitiser
dispensers for their patients.
They took the design from Vi
Thanh Health Centre in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang, which the
hospital’s staff and managers visited recently, and made some modifications to
it.
Hue Central Hospital in the
central province of Thua Thien- Hue has fabricated an automatic vehicle to
carry food and medicines to COVID-19 patients.
It was made by the hospital’s
director, Pham Nhu Hiep, and Huynh Phuc Minh, head of the room service
management division.
They made it by modifying a
remotely operated electric car for kids and putting a small container in it.
It means the staff do not need
to take food and medicines to COVID-19 patients, which provides the double
benefit of protecting them and easing their workload.
As of March 14 four patients
with COVID-19 were being treated at the hospital.
Staff at HCM City’s District 11
Hospital have borrowed sewing machines and bought materials such as
anti-bacterial and waterproof cloth and thread to sew masks because of a
shortage of medical masks in the market.
In four weeks they have sewn
more than 8,000 masks, and they are stored in the warehouse, according to the
hospital.
In the last month, health
workers at Tu Du Hospital in HCM City have been working during their noon break
to make masks. They will soon start making activated carbon masks for staff who
handle test samples.
One more hospital for COVID-19
treatment has been opened in the city, the Can Gio Health Centre. The first was
a field hospital in Cu Chi district.
On March 16 the department
organised a COVID-19 patient admission drill at the new hospital. Ten isolated
negative-pressure rooms to prevent cross-contamination have been set up.
These specialised hospitals
will help reduce the load on the Tropical Diseases and prevent
cross-contamination, according to the city Department of Health.
Speaking at a meeting between
the city steering board for COVID-19 prevention and control held March 16, Chairman
of the HCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong said the Department of
Health should teach people in quarantine how to prevent
cross-contamination.
The city has 25,000 beds in
quarantine and plans to use one more military facility to isolate suspected
victims from the south-eastern region and also several hotels.
So far at least five hotels had
agreed, Phong said./.
Source: VietnamPlus
