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One more hospital transformed to treat COVID-19 patients in HCM City

Trung Vuong Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City was transformed to treat COVID-19 patients from June 16 as an effort to have 3,500 beds dedicated to serve the treatment.
One more hospital transformed to treat COVID-19 patients in HCM City ảnh 1A quarantine site (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) – Trung Vuong Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City wastransformed to treat COVID-19 patients from June 16 as an effort to have3,500 beds dedicated to serve the treatment.

Accordingly, the 1,000-bed Trung Vuong hospital is ready toreceive and treat positive patients.

Previously, the municipal Department of Health converted thefunction of Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Cu Chi DistrictHospital into hospitals specialising in treating COVID-19 patients. The HCM CityHospital for Tropical Diseases is providing treatment for 126 patients, while Cu Chi COVID-19Treatment Hospital has received 192 others after only four days of operation.

On June 13, Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital was officially dividedinto two separate zones, with one treating patients with tuberculosis and theother treating non-tuberculosis lung diseases and receiving COVID-19 patients with severeclinical conditions.

Since then, the hospital has received 10 cases of COVID-19with respiratory failures, transferred from Can Gio COVID-19 TreatmentHospital, thus helping reduce overloading for the HCM City Hospital forTropical Diseases in the context that this hospital is temporarily locked-down asmany of its medical staffs tested positive for SARS-CoV-2./.
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