HCM City: Nine hospitals to treat patients in quarantine
The HCM City Department of Health has assigned nine local hospitals to take care of patients in need of healthcare during their period of quarantine, in order to ensure regulations regarding COVID-19 prevention and control are met.
Medical workers tend to a COVID-19 patient (Photo: VNA)
HCM City (VNA) - The HCM City Department of Health has assigned nine local hospitals totake care of patients in need of healthcare during their period of quarantine, inorder to ensure regulations regarding COVID-19 prevention and control are met.
The nine are NhanDan 115 Hospital, Nhan Dan Gia Dinh Hospital, Nguyen Tri Phuong Hospital, Nhi DongI Hospital, Nhi Dong II Hospital, Tu Du Hospital, Hung Vuong Hospital, FV Hospital,and Vinmec Central Park General Hospital.
They are to receivepeople with serious illness and in need of healthcare services after entering HCM Cityvia Tan Son Nhat International Airport. The hospitals will also take care of patientswith newly-emerged acute symptoms or who are in need of checks for chronic diseases.
The nine hospitalswill review and reinforce their facilities and quarantine area and establish COVID-19treatment procedures in accordance with Ministry of Health directions.
During their quarantineperiod at hospitals, if any patient tests positive for COVID-19 then thehospital must immediately report to the Centre for Disease Control, the Hospitalfor Tropical Diseases, or any hospital assigned to treat COVID-19 patients.
The city’s Departmentof Health also anticipates that more foreign and Vietnamese patients seeking medicaltreatment overseas will want to return to Vietnam and access medical treatment athospitals in the city.
Its health sectorhas asked local healthcare establishments to thoroughly evaluate patients’ immigrationhistory before admitting them, in order to ensure regulations on COVID-19 preventionand control are met.
Those who haven’tfinished a 14-day quarantine period will be sent to temporary quarantine areaswithin the hospitals./.
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Medical workers tend to a COVID-19 patient (Photo: VNA) 
