Ho Chi Minh City has completed 2,500 beds to treat Covid-19 patients

On June 15, Cu Chi Covid-19 Treatment Hospital received 192 Covid-19 patients for treatment. Patients with underlying kidney disease received on-site dialysis. This is a medical facility specializing in treating Covid-19 patients with a scale of 500 beds, converted from Cu Chi District Hospital.

Cu Chi Covid-19 Treatment Hospital has received 192 patients/500 beds for Covid-19 treatment. The fact that Cu Chi Covid-19 Treatment Hospital is on-site dialysis for 5 Covid-19 patients is a very good thing, acknowledging the outstanding efforts of the medical staff working here, when before Meanwhile, Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases has not been able to do this. In addition, Cu Chi Covid-19 Treatment Hospital can also perform emergency surgical interventions, gastrointestinal endoscopic interventions, obstetric interventions, etc. on Covid-19 patients without having to be transferred to other hospitals. city’s specialist hospital. This helps the health sector in Ho Chi Minh City not be passive in receiving severe Covid-19 patients, especially when it has to blockade the City Hospital for Tropical Diseases as in the past days. As for the 500-bed Covid-19 treatment unit, “split into two” from Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital, as of June 15, it has received 10 Covid-19 patients for treatment. Trung Vuong Hospital is ready to take part in receiving and treating Covid-19 patients, with a scale of 1,000 beds. Thus, the health sector of Ho Chi Minh City has realized the goal of deploying 2,500 beds to treat Covid-19 patients at 8 hospitals, including: Cu Chi field hospital (300 beds), Hospital Covid-19 treatment in Can Gio (600 beds), City Hospital for Tropical Diseases (400 beds), Cu Chi Covid-19 Treatment Hospital (500 beds), Pham Ngoc Thach Hospital (500 beds), Hospital City Children’s Hospital (100 beds), Children’s Hospital 2 (60 beds), Cho Ray Hospital (40 beds). The health sector of Ho Chi Minh City is ready to implement a plan to increase the total number of beds for treating Covid-19 patients to 3,500 beds, when Trung Vuong Hospital comes in, with 1,000 treatment beds. Another good news is that from June 16, Tan Phu District Hospital will reopen, after 15 days of temporary blockade due to 4 emergency drivers infected with Covid-19 from the outbreak of the Ehome 3 apartment complex. Binh Tan District). During medical isolation to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic, medical staff who were in close contact with Covid-19 cases were taken to quarantine according to regulations. Isolation staff at the hospital and at home all adhere to isolation regulations, are periodically tested for Covid-19 with all negative results. According to the Board of Directors of Tan Phu District Hospital, the hospital has arranged to arrange personnel and start up equipment to be ready for operation again on June 16, 2021.