200 Nghe An medical staff are ready to go to support Ho Chi Minh City in fighting the epidemic.

On July 8, Associate Professor, Dr. Duong Dinh Chinh - Director of the Department of Health said that 200 medical staff from Nghe An were ready to go to support Ho Chi Minh City in preventing and fighting the Covid-19 epidemic when ordered.

These are all doctors, technicians, and nurses working at medical facilities in the area. Of these, 150 will serve in sample collection. The remaining 50 medical staff, including 20 doctors and 30 nurses and technicians, will participate in the treatment and care of Covid-19 patients. Nghe An Department of Health assigned Dr. Pham Dinh Tung - Deputy Director of the Provincial Center for Disease Control as the head of the delegation.

Previously, on July 6, the Ministry of Health sent a document to 14 localities about mobilizing human resources to serve the epidemic prevention work in Ho Chi Minh City. The localities requested to support Ho Chi Minh City are all provinces and cities with experience in Covid-19 prevention and control.

At a recent meeting with Ho Chi Minh City, Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said that he would call on about 10,000 medical staff and workers from across the country to support Ho Chi Minh City. Currently, more than 3,300 medical staff and students from medical and pharmaceutical schools under the Ministry of Health are present in Ho Chi Minh City, supporting field hospitals and taking samples for screening tests.

Nghe An medical staff set out to support Ha Tinh province in June. Photo: Thanh Cuong

Ho Chi Minh City will implement social distancing according to Directive 16 from 0:00 on July 9. This move comes as the city has recorded more than 8,000 infections since the fourth outbreak on April 27, the highest in the country. Recently, the number of infections per day in the city has been continuously high, reaching thousands of cases in one day. Many cases were detected in the community through hospital screening.

In early June, Nghe An also sent 52 medical staff to Ha Tinh province to support the locality in fighting the epidemic. After completing the mission, this army returned to continue its mission when Nghe An continuously recorded cases. During this epidemic, Nghe An has 129 people infected with Covid-19.

Up to now, Nghe An has not recorded any new cases for 24 hours. Meanwhile, most of the recently recorded cases have been quarantined in advance. To control the epidemic, for nearly a month, medical staff have had to quickly collect samples for testing. On average, 1,000 - 2,000 samples are collected each day, and on peak days, the whole province collects more than 10,000 samples for Covid-19 testing./.