Illustrative photo. (Source: VNA)Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health has
requested COVID-19 treatment hospitals across the country to increase use of
Telehealth, a system for and support, to deal
with the spikes in cases.
The COVID-19 hospitals must, without delay, put into use
the system, connecting their different departments and units, and with
other hospitals.
Hospitals designated as national and regional intensive
care units were asked to urgently set up a remote health consultation network
with the COVID-19 treatment hospitals on digital platforms to provide
instructions on classifying patients based on their conditions, delivering
emergency and intensive care, and proposing hospital transfers.
Locally-run hospitals must immediately digitally connect
with national and regional ones to receive periodic and emergency
consultations.
The Ministries of Health, and Information and
Telecommunications on August 8 jointly launched the national
technology centre for COVID-19 prevention and control, and announced that all district
medical units had become connected with the Telehealth system.
Local medical workers are now able to seek advice from
leading experts about how to best treat patients in critical conditions,
particularly those with COVID-19, via Telehealth, instead of transferring them to
higher-level hospitals.
This will help ease overloads at centrally-run hospitals
and minimise direct contacts between patients and medical workers. In the long
run, it will enable all people to register for online medical consultations./.
Source: VietnamPlus
