Doctor Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Director of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City, said `patient 2983` is the most serious case, still on ECMO since moving from An Giang on May 13.
The patient is currently in critical condition, with a cautious prognosis.
Another serious case treated at the Intensive Care Department is `patient 5463`, the daughter of restaurant owner O Thanh.
`Patient 6293` – the wife of the pastor of the Renaissance Missionary Church was transferred from the Cu Chi Field Camp to the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases due to pneumonia and respiratory failure.
Severe Covid-19 patients are treated in the negative pressure isolation room, Intensive Care Department, Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
In the past 24 hours, three hospitals including Ho Chi Minh City Tropical Diseases, Cu Chi Field Hospital, and Can Gio Covid-19 Treatment received 70 new Covid-19 patients, bringing the total number of treatment cases to 106. This number of patients includes
Of the 70 patients diagnosed positive in the past 24 hours, Cu Chi Field Hospital received 40 patients from Go Vap 2 District Hospital and quarantine areas Thu Duc 3, Binh Thanh 3, Tan Phu 7,
Can Gio Covid-19 Treatment Hospital received 30 patients from Tropical Diseases Hospital 3, Gia Dinh People’s Hospital 1, Tan Phu District Hospital 1, Go Vap District Hospital and centralized quarantine areas of
Three hospitals are temporarily suspending outpatient examinations for 1-2 days to disinfect and conduct tests to screen staff in close contact, including Hoan My Saigon, Tan Phu District, and Eastern Military Medical Corps.
No hospital in Ho Chi Minh City was blocked due to the discovery of a positive case during inpatient treatment, only suspected cases were discovered from people who came for examination, were isolated, and samples were taken for testing.
Ho Chi Minh City currently has 5 hospitals specializing in Covid-19 treatment including Cho Ray, Cu Chi Field, Can Gio, City Children’s, Tropical Diseases with a total of 970 beds, 42 resuscitation beds, 39 beds in pressure chambers.
Three plans to respond to the epidemic situation in the area were presented to the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee on May 18 by Director of the Department of Health Nguyen Tan Binh, in order to proactively treat the most effective treatment, at the request of the National Anti-Epidemic Steering Committee.
In the past three days, the city has detected two outbreaks, a total of 90 cases, as of noon on May 29.
Yesterday, the results of nCoV gene sequencing of 5 patients in the missionary epidemic cluster all belonged to the Indian variant.
Le Phuong
