HCM City: Nine hospitals to treat patients in quarantine
The HCM City Department of Health has assigned nine local hospitals to take care of patients in need of healthcare during their period of quarantine, in order to ensure regulations regarding COVID-19 prevention and control are met.
Medical workers tend to a COVID-19 patient (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) - The HCM City Department of Health has assigned nine local hospitals to take care of patients in need of healthcare during their period of quarantine, in order to ensure regulations regarding COVID-19 prevention and control are met.
The nine are Nhan
Dan 115 Hospital, Nhan Dan Gia Dinh Hospital, Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital, Nhi Dong
I Hospital, Nhi Dong II Hospital, Tu Du Hospital, Hung Vuong Hospital, FV Hospital,
and Vinmec Central Park General Hospital.
They are to receive
people with serious illness and in need of healthcare services after entering HCM City
via Tan Son Nhat International Airport. The hospitals will also take care of patients
with newly-emerged acute symptoms or who are in need of checks for chronic diseases.
The nine hospitals
will review and reinforce their facilities and quarantine area and establish COVID-19
treatment procedures in accordance with Ministry of Health directions.
During their quarantine
period at hospitals, if any patient tests positive for COVID-19 then the
hospital must immediately report to the Centre for Disease Control, the Hospital
for Tropical Diseases, or any hospital assigned to treat COVID-19 patients.
The city’s Department
of Health also anticipates that more foreign and Vietnamese patients seeking medical
treatment overseas will want to return to Vietnam and access medical treatment at
hospitals in the city.
Its health sector
has asked local healthcare establishments to thoroughly evaluate patients’ immigration
history before admitting them, in order to ensure regulations on COVID-19 prevention
and control are met.
Those who haven’t
finished a 14-day quarantine period will be sent to temporary quarantine areas
within the hospitals./.