Over 2,000 medical devices and supplies transported to HCM City
More than 2,000 medical devices and supplies have been transported to a field storage serving COVID-19 prevention and control activities in Ho Chi Minh City - the country's current largest pandemic hotspot, and other southern localities.
At HCM City's COVID-19 intensive care hospital (Photo: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – More than 2,000 medical devices and supplies have been transported to a field storage serving COVID-19 prevention and control activities in Ho Chi Minh City - the country's current largest pandemic hotspot, and other southernlocalities.
The medical devices and supplies include ventilators, dialysis machines, oxygengenerators, and more than 12 million masks of all kinds.
Under the Prime Minister’s direction, the field storage wasestablished at Cho Ray Hospital in HCM City on July 17, expecting to keepabout 2,000 ventilators of different types.
The facility has to date stored 125,000 N95 masks, 14,500 sets of protective gears, and 12 million medical masks.
This week, the Ministry of Health will transport 560 highflow oxygen systems sponsored by enterprises to the storage, which has already stored60 systems.
Meanwhile, to treat severe cases, the ministry has workedwith HCM City's authorities and decided to set up a 1,000-bed COVID-19 intensivecare hospital, which is located at the city’s oncology hospital.
A medical worker works at HCM City's COVID-19 intensive care hospital (Photo: VNA)
So far, the city has recorded 48,863 infections. The city is piloting home quarantine for F1s. F0s withoutsymptoms are quarantined at their places of residence.
On July 22, HCM City began the fifth phase of itslarge-scale COVID-19 vaccination campaign with 615 injection sites across thecity. The campaign is scheduled to run within two weeks with more than 930,000vaccine doses to be administered./.
The Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee on July 21 decided to set up concentrated quarantine facilities in its districts and Thu Duc city for COVID-19 patients who show no symptoms, to ease the pressure on hospitals amid the complicated developments of COVID-19 pandemic.
Five national COVID-19 intensive care units (ICUs) will be set up in hospitals in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and the central province of Thua Thien-Hue under a project discussed at a meeting in Hanoi on July 21.
People aged 65 and above and those with underlying health conditions in Ho Chi Minh City are on the priority list for vaccination against COVID-19 in the fifth phase of its inoculation drive, which is set to begin on July 22.
More than 1,000 recovered COVID-19 patients in Ho Chi Minh City will be discharged from hospitals each day in the next days, according to the city Centre for Disease Control (HCDC).
After more than three weeks of intensive treatment, the patient's pneumonia improved, breathing stabilised, sedation was reduced, and the breathing tube was removed. He is now conscious, able to eat orally, and in recovery.
Despite storm-related disruptions and flight delays, the organs were successfully transported via a combination of air and ground travel. All patients are currently stable and recovering well.
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At HCM City's COVID-19 intensive care hospital (Photo: VNA) 
A medical worker works at HCM City's COVID-19 intensive care hospital (Photo: VNA) 
