On March 16, the Department of Health organises a drill for admitting COVID-19 patients at the second specialised hospital in HCM City for the pandemic, Can Gio Health Centre. (Source http://www.medinet.hochiminhcity.gov.vn) HCM City (VNS/VNA) - Medicalstaff at many hospitals around the country have been creative in fabricatingautomatic devices as they take care of an increasing number of COVID-19patients.
Employees of Thong NhatHospital in Ho Chi Minh City’s Tan Binh district make automatic hand sanitiserdispensers for their patients.
They took the design from ViThanh Health Centre in the Mekong Delta province of Hau Giang, which thehospital’s staff and managers visited recently, and made some modifications toit.
Hue Central Hospital in thecentral province of Thua Thien- Hue has fabricated an automatic vehicle tocarry food and medicines to COVID-19 patients.
It was made by the hospital’sdirector, Pham Nhu Hiep, and Huynh Phuc Minh, head of the room servicemanagement division.
They made it by modifying aremotely operated electric car for kids and putting a small container in it.
It means the staff do not needto take food and medicines to COVID-19 patients, which provides the doublebenefit of protecting them and easing their workload.
As of March 14 four patientswith COVID-19 were being treated at the hospital.
Staff at HCM City’s District 11Hospital have borrowed sewing machines and bought materials such asanti-bacterial and waterproof cloth and thread to sew masks because of ashortage of medical masks in the market.
In four weeks they have sewnmore than 8,000 masks, and they are stored in the warehouse, according to thehospital.
In the last month, healthworkers at Tu Du Hospital in HCM City have been working during their noon breakto make masks. They will soon start making activated carbon masks for staff whohandle test samples.
One more hospital for COVID-19treatment has been opened in the city, the Can Gio Health Centre. The first wasa field hospital in Cu Chi district.
On March 16 the departmentorganised a COVID-19 patient admission drill at the new hospital. Ten isolatednegative-pressure rooms to prevent cross-contamination have been set up.
These specialised hospitalswill help reduce the load on the Tropical Diseases and preventcross-contamination, according to the city Department of Health.
Speaking at a meeting betweenthe city steering board for COVID-19 prevention and control held March 16, Chairmanof the HCM City People’s Committee Nguyen Thanh Phong said the Department ofHealth should teach people in quarantine how to preventcross-contamination.
The city has 25,000 beds inquarantine and plans to use one more military facility to isolate suspectedvictims from the south-eastern region and also several hotels.
So far at least five hotels hadagreed, Phong said./.
VNA
