(Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health held
a teleconference recently discussing measures to ensure safety in battling
COVID-19 at medical facilities, with more than 700 units around the country
participating.
The teleconference reviewed lessons in COVID-19 treatment and measures to contain the spread of this and other acute
respiratory diseases in hospitals.
In his opening remarks, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen
Truong Son underlined that in addition to quarantining people that visited pandemic-hit
regions, early detection and appropriate treatment have an important role to
play in coping with the disease.
The ministry has prepared guidelines on COVID-19
diagnoses and treatment at hospitals, with updates from previous outbreaks and the
experience of others.
Notably, the establishment of a centre providing
has contributed to saving critical COVID-19 patients and
raising treatment quality.
The pandemic has broken out in 215 countries and
territories worldwide, Son noted. More than 34 million people have been infected with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, while over 1 million have
died.
has so far reported 1,095 cases, of which 1,018 have
now been given the all-clear, for a recovery rate of 96.4 percent. The country has
also recorded 35 fatalities.
A total of 54 medical facilities around the country
have provided treatment to patients. Thirty-two patients are now being
treated at nine hospitals./.
Source: VietnamPlus
