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In an online briefing at 129 hospitals in the area on the afternoon of December 1, the Deputy Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Health Department, Tang Chi Thuong, warned of the risk of epidemic infiltration into the hospital from cases in community.
Associate Professor Thuong emphasized: “The medical industry is determined not to allow the epidemic to spread in the hospital setting.”
Hospitals coordinate to quarantine and test people at epidemiological sites during the time that the City’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) declares the presence of nCoV, whether or not they have a fever, acute inflammation of the tract respiratory. People who reach the epidemiological point outside of the time announced by the CDC but who have fever and acute respiratory infections should also be isolated and tested.
“When there are few cases like now, hospitals that have not been recognized by the Ministry of Health, the Covid-19 diagnostic tests focus on sending patient samples to the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases for management,” he said. Thuong. .
On the other hand, the Department of Health requires that hospitals continue to strictly implement regulations on the prevention and control of Covid-19 infection. Control all the people who come to the hospital, including patients, relatives, medical personnel, outsourced service providers, business contacts … They all comply with the regulations on the use of masks, temperature control, hand antiseptic, medical report.
The medical examination and emergency services organize the screening and segmentation of people who attend medical examination and treatment, especially those with epidemiological, febrile and respiratory factors. Inpatient clinics review to ensure that each department has a temporary isolation chamber to isolate patients when there are epidemiological factors or suspicious symptoms.
The hospital should develop scripts and practice drills to respond to epidemics. All hospital staff are trained in procedures for prevention, infection control, diagnosis and treatment of epidemics. Limit travel between faculties and departments, deal with crowds in areas that are often congested in hospitals, distance according to regulations.
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