Three intensive care centres open in HCM City

HCM
City (VNA) – Three for COVID-19 patients (ICUs)
with doctors and medical personnel coming from three central-level hospitals
across the country opened on August 7 in  – the country’s
current largest pandemic hotspot.

Doctors
and medical personnel from three central-level hospitals,
including the Vietnam German Friendship Hospital and and the Bach
Mai Hospital in Hanoi, and Hue Central Hospital in Thua Thien-Hue province, have
arrived in HCM City to help set up the ICUs that have a total of 1,500 beds.

Deputy
Health Minister Nguyen Truong Son, head of the ministry’s taskforce to
support HCM City in COVID-19 prevention and control, said the telehealth
digital platform should be used to connect
hospital departments, and a monitoring centre should be set up
to coordinate the treatment of critical COVID-19 cases at the
three intensive care centres.

HCM
City is struggling to contain its largest outbreak despite
serious prevention measures, according to Son. “The city has also
had to ensure a steady supply of medical equipment and supplies for
treatment.”

“Despite
the number of cases, the city is on the right track,” he said,
adding that the top priority is to save patients with serious health
conditions and reduce fatalities.

In
addition to medical staff, the ministry will send managers and
administrators of leading hospitals across Vietnam to work in HCM City.

HCM
City’s Cho Ray Hospital is currently operating the HCM City Intensive Care
Hospital based in the HCM City Oncology Hospital in Thu Duc City with
a capacity of about 1,000 beds./.