British pilot and his colleagues at Vietnam Airlines (Source: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The UK media has run articleshighlighting the hospital discharge of a British pilot – known as Patient 91and the most seriously ill COVID-19 case in Vietnam who spent more than twomonths on life support in the country before returning home on July 12 (Londontime).
The Guardian newspaper of the UK said that thepatient, a pilot of the national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines, had been treatedfor nearly four months in Ho Chi Minh City’s hospitals, including 10 weeks on aventilator.
It cited the pilot as saying that he wasoverwhelmed by the generosity of the Vietnamese people, the dedication andprofessionalism of the doctors and nurses, and thanked them for what they’vedone.
The article also quoted Tran Thanh Linh,the deputy head of ICU at Cho Ray hospital as saying that “huge effort andenergy” had gone into saving Cameron, who was given the country’s bestequipment and whose case had captured the attention of everyone from doctors togovernment officials.
Patient 91 became the focus of huge mediaattention as the country’s top medical minds met to brainstorm treatmentoptions, the article wrote, adding that the news that he would need a lungtransplant was met with 59 donation offers.
It also stressed that as of July 11,Vietnam had recorded 370 infections and no official fatalities.
On July 12, the BBC also provided readersan insight into Patient 91’s hospitalisation days.
"If I'd been almost anywhere else onthe planet, I'd be dead,” BCC quoted the patient in his exclusive interview tothe newspaper. “"I'm very humbled by how I've been taken into the heartsof the Vietnamese people. And most of all I'm grateful for the bloody-mindednessof the doctors in not wanting me to die on their watch."
The Daily Mailsaid on July 11 that Vietnam keeps its perfect score when the British pilotfinally left hospital.
The Britishpilot’s hospital discharge hasalso made headlines in several US newspapers such as Washington Post, USA Todayand the Associated Press (AP)./.
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