HCM City hospitals prepare for busy Tet holiday

HCM City hospitals are preparing emergency aid for the Tet holiday as the number of traffic accidents, food poisoning incidents and drunk driving incidents is expected to increase.
HCM City hospitals prepare for busy Tet holiday ảnh 1Illustrative image (Photo: congan.com.vn)

HCM City (VNA)
- HCM City hospitals areensuring that emergency aid, medicine and medical personnel are available forthe Tet holiday as the number of traffic accidents, food poisoning incidents anddrunk driving incidents is expected to increase.

Dr Tang Chi Thuong, deputy head of the city’sdepartment of health, said that 22 satellite emergency aid stations were set upthroughout the city last year. They are located at 14 district-level hospitals,two city-level hospitals, five private hospitals and the city’s 115 emergencyaid centre.

The department plans to ensure that eachdistrict has at least one emergency aid station.

During Tet, it will take these stations andtheir staff and ambulances no more than three or five minutes to reach accidentvictims after receiving emergency calls.
Since mid-December last year, Cho Ray Hospitalhas been ordering medicine and other medical materials to meet demand during Tet.

As of January 20, the hospital had enoughmedicine to last until the end of February.

Moreover, medicine for specialised wards willalso be available at the hospital for the next two or three months.

The city’s TraumaOrthopaedics Hospital has also increased the number of doctors at its emergencyaid wards. The wards often have to treat many intoxicated men involved infights during the holiday.  

The head of Thu Duc District Hospital, Dr NguyenMinh Quan, said that all doctors in their emergency-aid wards would be workingduring the holiday, when the number of patients often increases 15-20 percent.

The Department of Health has instructed healthpreventive centres and other health facilities to continue to take measures toprevent the spread of the Zika virus, dengue fever and hand-foot-mouth disease.-VNA  

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