Military personnel heading to South Sudan to receive COVID-19 vaccinations

A female soldier receives screening check-up before receiving injection (Photo: VNA)

HCM City (VNA) – Military Hospital 175 in on March
16 gave to officers and soldiers of level-2 Field
Hospital No 3, who are about to set off for South Sudan, as well as to hospital
staff working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 fight.

It is the first military hospital in the city providing
vaccinations.

Director of the hospital Major General Nguyen
Hong Son said 64 officers and soldiers of the field hospital and six hospital workers
received injections on the day.

Field hospital officers and soldiers ready to receive injections (Photo: VNA)

The 64 officers and soldiers are scheduled to
travel to South Sudan on March 24 to carry out a UN peacekeeping mission.

The Military Hospital will send vaccines to the
African country so that the officers and soldiers can receive their second
doses.

Major Trinh My Hoa, Director of Field Hospital
No 3, said that amid the complex developments of the pandemic, receiving vaccinations
is a great source of encouragement.

To fulfil the assigned tasks, Hoa pledged to
strictly follow the pandemic prevention and control measures applied effectively
in Vietnam.

has been allocated with
2,100 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine./.