Illustrative image (Photo: VNA) HCM City (VNS/VNA) -Young people in many provinces and cities are volunteering to take part in COVID-19prevention and control efforts together with health authorities.
The Ho Chi Minh Communist YouthUnion of HCM City on March 22 launched a voluntary programme to support thehealth sector.
The Ho Chi Minh Communist YouthUnion of HCM City on March 22 launched a voluntary programme to support thehealth sector.
It attracted 200 young doctorsand staff from clinics and hospitals run by universities and medical students.
Phan Thi Thanh Phuong, theunion’s standing deputy secretary, said there would be communication about COVID-19preventive measures and its progress to students, their parents, teachers, andworkers in the city.
It would also work with localauthorities and relevant agencies to install medical equipment at hospitals andcollaborate with the Sai Gon Water Supply Corporation’s Ho Chi Minh CommunistYouth Union and TuoiTre (Youth) newspaper to install wash basin in 25 schools in the city,especially in outlying districts, and spray chemicals to disinfect them, shesaid.
They would also provideassistance in the city’s quarantine areas and help people brought there fillhealth declaration forms required by the city Centre for Diseases Preventionand Control (CDC), she said.
The volunteers had receivedtraining.
Tran Duy Quan, a fifth yearstudent at the HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, said he and hisclassmates had obtained knowledge about the disease and preventive measures andcould correct misunderstanding among the public.
Dr Nguyen Thanh Hiep, vicerector of the Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine in HCM City, said morethan 500 senior students had worked with staff at the Centre for DiseasesPrevention and Control in the fight against COVID-19.
They helped the centre’s staffinput data about the incidence of COVID-19 and people related to patients, andset up a map genealogy to monitor the spread of the disease. They were alsohelping the centre’s team investigate the epidemic by tracking people who posea high risk of transmission.
Students are providingassistance to authorities in quarantine areas.
All have been trained in how toprotect themselves from COVID-19.
Last weekend hundreds ofstudents from the Vietnam National University- HCM City volunteered to cleanthe university’s dormitory, which is being used as quarantine accommodation formore than 3,000 people.
In the Mekong Delta city of CanTho, 305 students of the Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy areworking to communicate, disinfect and take samples for tests.
Its lecturers have also joined COVID-19prevention and control efforts.
Three hundred forty students ofHue University’s University of Medicine and Pharmacy are working with thepolice to check the temperatures of train passengers and guide them in fillinghealth declaration and other papers.
They include 160 students goodat English who are helping foreign passengers.
According to the Hanoi Centrefor Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), 75 students from the Hanoi MedicalUniversity have joined its staff for prevention and control of COVID-19 likethe students from Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine’s do at the HCM CityCDC.
Other students are providingassistance to staff preventing against COVID-19 at Noi Bai InternationalAirport in Hanoi.
Six hundreds of students fromthe Hanoi University of Public Health pursuing majors in public health, testingtechniques and nutrition are pitching in to help health officials.
The Ministry of Health hascalled on medical students to help in the fight against the epidemic./.
Phan Thi Thanh Phuong, theunion’s standing deputy secretary, said there would be communication about COVID-19preventive measures and its progress to students, their parents, teachers, andworkers in the city.
It would also work with localauthorities and relevant agencies to install medical equipment at hospitals andcollaborate with the Sai Gon Water Supply Corporation’s Ho Chi Minh CommunistYouth Union and TuoiTre (Youth) newspaper to install wash basin in 25 schools in the city,especially in outlying districts, and spray chemicals to disinfect them, shesaid.
They would also provideassistance in the city’s quarantine areas and help people brought there fillhealth declaration forms required by the city Centre for Diseases Preventionand Control (CDC), she said.
The volunteers had receivedtraining.
Tran Duy Quan, a fifth yearstudent at the HCM City University of Medicine and Pharmacy, said he and hisclassmates had obtained knowledge about the disease and preventive measures andcould correct misunderstanding among the public.
Dr Nguyen Thanh Hiep, vicerector of the Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine in HCM City, said morethan 500 senior students had worked with staff at the Centre for DiseasesPrevention and Control in the fight against COVID-19.
They helped the centre’s staffinput data about the incidence of COVID-19 and people related to patients, andset up a map genealogy to monitor the spread of the disease. They were alsohelping the centre’s team investigate the epidemic by tracking people who posea high risk of transmission.
Students are providingassistance to authorities in quarantine areas.
All have been trained in how toprotect themselves from COVID-19.
Last weekend hundreds ofstudents from the Vietnam National University- HCM City volunteered to cleanthe university’s dormitory, which is being used as quarantine accommodation formore than 3,000 people.
In the Mekong Delta city of CanTho, 305 students of the Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy areworking to communicate, disinfect and take samples for tests.
Its lecturers have also joined COVID-19prevention and control efforts.
Three hundred forty students ofHue University’s University of Medicine and Pharmacy are working with thepolice to check the temperatures of train passengers and guide them in fillinghealth declaration and other papers.
They include 160 students goodat English who are helping foreign passengers.
According to the Hanoi Centrefor Disease Prevention and Control (CDC), 75 students from the Hanoi MedicalUniversity have joined its staff for prevention and control of COVID-19 likethe students from Pham Ngoc Thach University of Medicine’s do at the HCM CityCDC.
Other students are providingassistance to staff preventing against COVID-19 at Noi Bai InternationalAirport in Hanoi.
Six hundreds of students fromthe Hanoi University of Public Health pursuing majors in public health, testingtechniques and nutrition are pitching in to help health officials.
The Ministry of Health hascalled on medical students to help in the fight against the epidemic./.
VNA
