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175 Military Hospital in concentrated isolation 6/2, analyzing 21 employees exposed “patient 1979” (male employee Tan Son Nhat) examined here before positive results.
Working with Vice Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen at Ho Chi Minh City’s Pasteur Institute on the afternoon of the same day, Colonel Dr. Truong Dinh Cam, deputy director of Hospital 175, said the 28-year-old staff of Tan El Son Nhat airport came to the examination 3/2 days, symptoms of fever, cough.
According to Dr. Cam, when he entered the examination, he claimed that he came from Thuan An, Binh Duong, a native of Dak Lak, both places had no epidemiological factors, but due to suspicious symptoms, he was sent to the detection area. . Patients have to visit the canteen to buy drinking water.
On February 5, when the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (CDC) announced that this person’s surveillance test was positive for nCoV, 175 Military Hospital tracked the epidemiology, identifying 21 as F1. There are 7 members of the medical staff in direct contact.
“The hospital is reviewing the camera and continues to track the people involved,” Dr. Cam said. Staff in close contact today have been quarantined and assembled in the hospital field. The institute also sprayed and disinfected patient ducts, cleaning contact surfaces.
Vice Minister of Health Do Xuan Tuyen (overseas, left) came to inspect anti-epidemic work at 175 Military Hospital on the morning of February 6. Image: Main tran.
Dr Nguyen Hong Chuong, Director of the Binh Duong Province Health Department, said the younger brother of the Tan Son Nhat airport staff tested positive on February 5. It was the younger brother who took his brother to 175 Military Hospital for a medical examination. The two brothers on the afternoon of February 6 were recognized by the Ministry of Health as “patient 1979” (brother) and 1980 (younger brother).
Ho Chi Minh City Pasteur’s director Phan Trong Lan said initial investigation showed the two brothers were capable of becoming infected as of January 31. “The time of suspected infection at 175 Military Hospital is a time when there is a great risk of infection, it should be examined quickly,” said Mr. Lan.
On the morning of February 6, Vice Minister Tuyen came to verify the anti-epidemic work at Military Hospital 175. Mr. Tuyen suggested that the hospital urgently track and test all F1 and F2. Hospitals need to regularly and periodically evaluate personnel with high-risk factors such as the detection area, the respiratory department, the infectious disease department, emergencies …
Calling to lead the remote meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam said that this is a large hospital, it is necessary to urgently track and verify the camera to identify contacts, so as not to affect the operation of the hospital, as well as everyone’s life, especially during the Tet holidays.
