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HCMCOn the morning of December 19, two helicopters carrying patients from the Truong Sa and Can Gio islands landed on the roof of the building of the Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics, 175 Military Hospital.
The emergency team urgently pushed the patient onto the bandage and moved to the hospital treatment area for about three minutes. A multiple trauma patient, a stroke, everyone needs an intervention as soon as possible, in golden times.
Major General, Associate Professor Nguyen Hong Son, director of the 175 Military Hospital, said the helipad was officially opened after more than a year of preparation since the first test flight in November last year, coordinated by many agencies, units Defense, Ministry of Transport, Vietnam Flight Management Corporation …
“This is a dream, a wish has come true. 30 years of sticking to the health of the island and the fronts and borders of the Central Highlands, we see that the theft of emergency time for patients is very necessary,” said the Major General Son.
Helicopters carrying the patients landed on the roof of Trauma Orthopedics Hospital, 175 Military Hospital on the morning of December 19. Image: Huu Khoa.
Associate Professor Tang Chi Thuong, Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Health Department, said that the city’s health sector considers emergency hospital exit to be a very important activity, aiming to develop in the direction of professionalization and accessibility. Various types of emergencies like countries around the world. Helicopter emergencies open up a new direction, helping to save the lives of patients in urgent need of intervention who need to be transferred to terminal hospitals.
“The first licensed helipad, it can be said that emergency access to the helicopter is within the reach of the city’s health sector,” said Mr. Thuong. The deputy director of the Department of Health hopes that in the near future, the heliports of the 2nd Primary Cancer Hospital, Children of the City … will be operational soon.
In the coming time, the 175 Military Hospital, the Ho Chi Minh City Health Department, the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee, and related agencies inside and outside the military will jointly develop regulations on airport operations, complying with security and defense tasks. how to ensure the livelihood factor of the people, take care of the health of the people, under the direction of the Prime Minister.
Medicopter Specialized Helicopters are expected to replace the Helicopters currently in use, helping to increase the quality of the emergency, solving many emergency techniques on aircraft.
The patients were transported to the treatment area within minutes of the helicopter landing. Image: Huu Khoa.
In addition to serving as emergency transport for soldiers and people who have had an accident in Truong Sa, the helicopters at 175 Military Hospital will be a point of rapid development of emergency towards the model of a multipurpose emergency center. road – waterway – air. This contributes to solving emergency situations, catastrophic incidents, natural disasters … ensuring a good service to the health of personnel, city dwellers, neighboring provinces and the region.
175 Military Hospital is the general branch in the extreme south of the army. This is the first hospital in Ho Chi Minh City to organize an emergency helicopter, which takes patients directly to the hospital instead of having to land at Tan Son Nhat airport to transfer patients more than 5 km to the hospital. As a result, patients are quickly rescued within minutes of the helicopter landing.
The patient’s emergency helicopter landed on the landing zone on the roof of Hospital Militar 175. Video: Tuan Viet.
