Doctors from HCM City’s Cho Ray Hospital assist medical staff at the Da Nang Lung Hospital treat severe COVID-19 patients (Photo courtesy of Cho Ray Hospital)outbreak flared up in the central city of Da Nang late last month, Ho Chi Minh City’s
has dispatched six medical teams
to help contain its spread.
Eight
doctors, five nurses and three laboratory technicians have been sent to
hospitals in Da Nang and neighbouring Quang Nam province in the last two weeks.
Tran Thanh Linh, deputy head of Cho Ray’s
intensive care unit, is assisting doctors at Da Nang Lung Hospital to
treat severely ill COVID-19 patients.
His
team members take turns at night to ensure round-the-clock assistance to the
and care for patients, he said.
The Da Nang Lung Hospital’s
intensive care unit currently houses dozens of patients with , many of
them on ventilators, some on
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machines and being treated with
continuous blood purification.
Dr
Le Kinh Luan, head of a medical team from Cho Ray
dispatched to Hoa Vang
Hospital, said his team was helping treat nine COVID-19 patients and the
number was expected to rise to 16 this week.
Huynh Quang Dai, deputised to Quang Nam province’s General Hospital, said the pressure on the health care workforce on
the front lines in the fight against COVID-19 in Da Nang and Quang Nam has intensified with an
unprecedented workload and high risk of infection.
“But
we do our best to treat infected patients with a sense of optimism and
determination.”
On
August 8, HCM City’s Department of Health dispatched three
doctors and five nurses from Gia Dinh
People’s Hospital, People’s 115 and ThuDuc District Hospital to support Da Nang in the fight against COVID-19./.
Source: VietnamPlus
