Vietnam’s first patient with monkeypox discharged from hospital (Photo: )HCM City (VNA) – The first patient with monkeypox in Vietnam was discharged from
hospital on October 14 after three weeks of treatment, according to the Ho Chi
Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
After treatment, the female patient’s fever has gone. The
blisters on her face, hands, and feet have dried up, flaked off, and
cicatrised, while those inside her throat have been healed. With her pain gone,
the patient now eats well, gains weight, and is optimistic.
The 35-year-old patient, residing in Ho Chi Minh City, fell
ill on September 18 while traveling in with symptoms of fever, fatigue,
chills, muscle aches, headache and a cough, as well as red, itchy bumps on her
arms, body, and face. She returned to on September 22.
On September 23, she was admitted to the city’s Tu Du
Hospital and then transferred to the municipal Hospital of Dermato Venereology,
where she was quarantined. Two days later, she tested positive for monkeypox
and was transferred to the municipal Hospital for Tropical Diseases for further
quarantine, treatment and genetic sequencing./.
Source: VietnamPlus
