Stretch yourself to treat patients with severe prognosis in the epidemic center of Bac Ninh Doctors at Bac Ninh Provincial General Hospital are treating 119 cases of Covid-19. Of these, 25 patients had a severe prognosis. As of the morning of June 9, doctors in Bac Ninh were treating 789 Covid-19 patients. In which, Bac Ninh Provincial General Hospital is the only facility to treat serious patients with 25 cases. 10:00 a.m. every day is the time when doctors and nurses at the hospital’s Covid-19 treatment area are busy in their work. In the severe cases being treated here, one patient had to use an invasive ventilator, 10 cases of high-flow oxygen and 14 cases of mask/glass oxygen. This patient is doing well, is able to respond to the doctor’s questions and perform some simple limb movements. For better health cases, doctors encourage patients to sit up and move on their own. The daily work of the medical staff is to administer prescription drugs to each patient, provide care, and report severe cases or unusual developments… Ms. Nguyen Thi Thao (ICU) is one of the doctors involved in treating Covid-19 patients from the first days. The female doctor did not remember how many days had passed since she was in the hospital. On stressful shifts, she worked 20 hours in a protective suit. The diet of each patient is monitored by the doctor every day. They can choose food such as rice, vermicelli, porridge… depending on their needs. At lunchtime, the nurse will deliver food to each room. Ms. Thao said that nutrition greatly affects the health and treatment of patients. “Many people skip meals, lose their appetite… we have to give them a lot of encouragement. Sometimes it’s even comforting or directly feeding them,” the female doctor said. The treatment rooms have a camera system installed, which is convenient for remote monitoring. At the same time, it helps to reduce the time of medical staff in contact with positive patients, limiting the risk of infection. 24 medical staff divided into 3 treatment cases taking turns. Including reinforcements from the provinces of Phu Tho, Thai Binh, Yen Bai… After finishing the shift, they changed into protective clothing, disinfected and then returned to the resort arranged right inside the campus of the company. hospital.

With the criteria of low cost, efficiency and ease of use, the Hospital of Traditional Medicine, the Ministry of Public Security has created a thermal shockproof shirt for medical staff who are carrying out the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic in medical conditions. extreme hot weather. Senior Lieutenant Le Thi Hoa, Medical Officer of Infection Control Department, Traditional Medicine Hospital of the Ministry of Public Security, the creator of the thermal shock jacket said: ‘This shirt is simply designed with a mesh body. three holes, cool material”. Mesh shirts have a relatively cheap cost of only 50,000 VND, so they can be produced in large quantities to serve the frontline health ministries involved in the prevention and control of COVID-19. The highlight of this thermal shock jacket is the dry ice bags weighing 500g wrapped by a layer of insulation foam with a thickness of 1cm to prevent the ice from directly contacting the human skin and placed in a zip bag to prevent water, Fast cooling effect. Each net shirt is arranged with 4 ice bags in front and back to keep the net shirt balance. 1 set of thermal shockproof vest complete with materials made of mesh cotton fabric to make the process of heat diffusion between the body and the air inside the frame easier, 4 elasticated front and back pockets, each bag for 1 extra piece of insulation 1cm thick and 1 bag of dry ice 500mg. The weight is not too heavy to help doctors manipulate and move conveniently. After acceptance, the Traditional Medicine Hospital of the Ministry of Public Security evaluated the thermal shock jacket to be effective in 6-8 hours, enough for one shift for doctors and nurses, the hospital will quickly coordinate with units to produce large quantities, promptly serve health workers who are performing frontline anti-epidemic tasks. Major General Pham Ba Tuyen, Director of the Hospital of Traditional Medicine under the Ministry of Public Security, who directly experienced the thermal shock jacket, said: “After only a few days from ideation and product testing, the hospital’s leaders instructed to urgently check and accept to quickly put into production and distribute to health workers who are on duty of epidemic prevention in the provinces, especially Bac Giang and Bac Ninh”. On the afternoon of June 3, the Traditional Medicine Hospital of the Ministry of Public Security sent reinforcements to the field hospital in the Bac Giang epidemic center with more than 60 anti-heat shock shirts and many drugs to support epidemic prevention and control.