Overseas Vietnamese experts in Italy help control COVID-19 at home

Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen (L) and Italian doctors (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – A series of online conferences themed
“ join hands in overcoming the pandemic” will be launched on
July 31 by a Vietnamese Italian expert team led by .

The activity aims to respond to the call by the
Party and State leaders for the Vietnamese community’s support to the COVID-19 fight.

In the first conference, the experts will share experience
with in deploying family doctor system in Italy for treatment
of COVID-19 patients.

Speaking to a Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Italy, Doctor Karen Kieu
Nguyen said that since the beginning of outbreak in Vietnam, the
Vietnamese Government has valued ideas and experience shared by overseas
Vietnamese in pandemic prevention and control.

She held that Vietnam showed strong performance in pandemic
control in 2020 with low numbers of infections and deaths, and high number of
recoveries.

However, recently, the number of new infections is rising,
she noted, adding that the guidelines given by family doctors via telephone to
patients undertaking quarantine and treatment at home are necessary in reducing
spreading risks and overload at hospitals.

As scheduled, Doctor Karen Kieu Nguyen and her peers from 118
emergency centre of Italy will arrive in HCM City to support the city in
implementing the process of screening, treating and caring for COVID-19
patients, and share Italy’s experience in vaccine distribution.

The conference series is the initiative of a group of OVs,
including Danny Vo Thanh Dang from Singapore, Dr. Nguyen Duc Thai and Dr. William H. Nguyen from the US./.