A health worker at Gia Dinh People’s Hospital checks the temperature of people visiting the hospital (Source: www.bvndgiadinh.org.vn) HCM City (VNS/VNA) –Ho Chi Minh City’s Department of Health has instructed health facilities tocarry out methods to protect people in high-risk categories from COVID-19.
Facilities should applythe Ministry of Health’s 37 criteria for the prevention and controlof COVID-19 and other acute respiratory infections as well as otherregulations on prevention at hospitals, in addition to thecity department’s 14 criteria on preventing facilities from becomingsources of transmission.
The department has alsoinstructed health facilities to conduct health declarations and checktemperatures of patients, their relatives and anyonevisiting departments where seniors are treated and others withchronic diseases. Relatives should not be allowed to visit patientsin these departments.
Health facilities should set upat least one booth at inpatient departments to isolate patients ortheir relatives if they have a fever and other symptoms of COVID-19.
They should notlet patients share beds and should maintain a minimum distance betweenbeds, according to department regulations. Separate areas forpatients and their relatives at these departments should be set up.
One of the other preventivemeasures is to limit senior patients and those with chronic diseases fromgoing to crowded areas in hospitals. These patients should begiven priority for testing, ultrasounds and X-rays at their beds.
Patients with chronic kidneyfailure should receive dialysis as scheduled, and those who arequarantined and need dialysis should be taken to a separate area inhealth facilities.
Health facilities shouldclosely observe departments where senior patients and those withchronic diseases are being treated to ensure compliance of healthofficials, patients and their relatives.
Inpatients should be dischargedfrom hospitals when their health is stable, and the time forfollow-up examination should be extended for no more than 90 days forpatients with chronic disease.
Patients shouldreceive their health records and be given follow-up examinationsat health centres or district-level hospitals near where they live.
The department also instructedhealth facilities to communicate with discharged patients via digitalmeans or phone about counselling and guidance on self-care at theirhomes.
Health facilities shouldstrengthen telemedicine for older patients and those with chronicdiseases, according to the department’s instructions.
Speaking at an onlineconference with ministries, provinces and cities held on August 21, Duong Anh Duc,Vice Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, said the city had had 16 COVID-19incidences since July 25, including eight related to the outbreak in DaNang. The remaining had returned from other countries and were quarantinedwhen they arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport.
These patients were treated athospitals and their health is stable, according to Duc.
As many as 53,719 people havereturned from Da Nang to HCM City as of August 21, and they have beentested and have filled out health declarations.
The city had not recorded alocally transmitted COVID-19 incidence for 23 days, Duc said, adding thatthis reflected effective cooperation between local authorities and healthofficials in locating, tracing, testing and stopping the spread of the virus.
The city had isolated andtested 126 people who have entered the country illegally, including one whotested positive for SARS-CoV-2. It was also carrying out surveillanceof patients who had been discharged and those who had returned fromquarantine areas in provinces. Foreign flight crews, seafarers and expertsentering the city for work were still being quarantined.
Domestic terminals atairports should continue to be controlled, Duc said.
The city has 13 healthfacilities designated by the Ministry of Health toconduct tests with the capacity of 9,000 samples per day. Theyaim to have more than 13,000 samples per day.
In the upcoming time, theDepartment of Health will have specific measures for people who are givenpriority for tests. The Centre for Disease Control has been toldto use software to supervise and classify people whoare given priority for testing.
The city stillrequires limited gatherings and participation in nonessentialactivities. It has asked people to install the Bluezone application ontheir phones. The app helps detect and trace people who could bepotential transmitters of the disease in the community.
People who do not wear masksin the city are fined./.
Facilities should applythe Ministry of Health’s 37 criteria for the prevention and controlof COVID-19 and other acute respiratory infections as well as otherregulations on prevention at hospitals, in addition to thecity department’s 14 criteria on preventing facilities from becomingsources of transmission.
The department has alsoinstructed health facilities to conduct health declarations and checktemperatures of patients, their relatives and anyonevisiting departments where seniors are treated and others withchronic diseases. Relatives should not be allowed to visit patientsin these departments.
Health facilities should set upat least one booth at inpatient departments to isolate patients ortheir relatives if they have a fever and other symptoms of COVID-19.
They should notlet patients share beds and should maintain a minimum distance betweenbeds, according to department regulations. Separate areas forpatients and their relatives at these departments should be set up.
One of the other preventivemeasures is to limit senior patients and those with chronic diseases fromgoing to crowded areas in hospitals. These patients should begiven priority for testing, ultrasounds and X-rays at their beds.
Patients with chronic kidneyfailure should receive dialysis as scheduled, and those who arequarantined and need dialysis should be taken to a separate area inhealth facilities.
Health facilities shouldclosely observe departments where senior patients and those withchronic diseases are being treated to ensure compliance of healthofficials, patients and their relatives.
Inpatients should be dischargedfrom hospitals when their health is stable, and the time forfollow-up examination should be extended for no more than 90 days forpatients with chronic disease.
Patients shouldreceive their health records and be given follow-up examinationsat health centres or district-level hospitals near where they live.
The department also instructedhealth facilities to communicate with discharged patients via digitalmeans or phone about counselling and guidance on self-care at theirhomes.
Health facilities shouldstrengthen telemedicine for older patients and those with chronicdiseases, according to the department’s instructions.
Speaking at an onlineconference with ministries, provinces and cities held on August 21, Duong Anh Duc,Vice Chairman of the HCM City People’s Committee, said the city had had 16 COVID-19incidences since July 25, including eight related to the outbreak in DaNang. The remaining had returned from other countries and were quarantinedwhen they arrived at Tan Son Nhat International Airport.
These patients were treated athospitals and their health is stable, according to Duc.
As many as 53,719 people havereturned from Da Nang to HCM City as of August 21, and they have beentested and have filled out health declarations.
The city had not recorded alocally transmitted COVID-19 incidence for 23 days, Duc said, adding thatthis reflected effective cooperation between local authorities and healthofficials in locating, tracing, testing and stopping the spread of the virus.
The city had isolated andtested 126 people who have entered the country illegally, including one whotested positive for SARS-CoV-2. It was also carrying out surveillanceof patients who had been discharged and those who had returned fromquarantine areas in provinces. Foreign flight crews, seafarers and expertsentering the city for work were still being quarantined.
Domestic terminals atairports should continue to be controlled, Duc said.
The city has 13 healthfacilities designated by the Ministry of Health toconduct tests with the capacity of 9,000 samples per day. Theyaim to have more than 13,000 samples per day.
In the upcoming time, theDepartment of Health will have specific measures for people who are givenpriority for tests. The Centre for Disease Control has been toldto use software to supervise and classify people whoare given priority for testing.
The city stillrequires limited gatherings and participation in nonessentialactivities. It has asked people to install the Bluezone application ontheir phones. The app helps detect and trace people who could bepotential transmitters of the disease in the community.
People who do not wear masksin the city are fined./.
VNA
