The health sector in HCMC has prepared a plan to deploy 10,000 beds, including 1,000 ICU beds for Covid-19 patients. The Hospital for Tropical Diseases is assigned to be the highest-level hospital to treat severe and critical Covid-19 patients.
According to the General Statistics Office (GSO), international arrivals in Vietnam have sharply soared from the middle of March to the present thanks to the country’s tourism reopening policies.
The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism has proposed to lift health insurance or travel insurance with coverage of at least US$10,000 for Covid-19 treatment for foreign arrivals entering Vietnam.
The Sai Gon Giai Phong (SGGP) Newspaper has received readers’ feedback about the care and treatment for Covid-19 provided by the local authorities and medical facilities.
The HCMC Department of Health on Thursday asked all public hospitals in the city to set aside at least 10 percent of hospital beds for treatment of Covid-19 patients amid a surge in hospitalizations and deaths and the emergence of the Omicron variant.
Speaking at a conference on prevention and control of the pandemic on November 13, Secretary of the HCMC Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen expressed his concern over an increase of new Covid-19 infections in the city in recent days.
According to the plan of prevention and control of the pandemic after September 15, the HCMC Department of Health has called on all the community’s resources, including the private healthcare system to participate in Covid-19 treatment. However, there is still not any support policy to encourage private medical facilities to join the fight against the virus.
As the Covid-19 pandemic becomes increasingly complicated, traveling between regions encounters more difficulties. Meanwhile, severe cases of various diseases, including Covid-19, need transferring to higher-leveled hospital for more professional treatment as soon as possible. Thanks to the introduction of Telehealth, a platform for distance medical diagnosis and treatment, many lives will be save in time.
Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh yesterday attended the ceremony to formally introduce Telehealth – a platform for distance medical diagnosis and treatment, and the National Technological Center for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.
Director of the Health Ministry's Department of Medical Examination and Treatment Luong Ngoc Khue has just shared with the press about the development of specific AI-based software to quickly detect the highly risky among Covid-19 patients so that timely treatments could be provided to avoid morality.
Amid the current surge of Covid-19 patients in the public along with a huge number of immigrants, additional field hospitals have been established contributing to prevention, detection, quarantine and treatment of Covid-19 patients and suspected cases.
The Vietnam Administration of Drug has been cautioning against self-medication with Chloroquine for Covid-19 prevention after Hanoi-based Bach Mai’s Poisoning Center admitted a case of poisoning due to overdosing on the drug, the first case in the country.
