Localities ready to respond to Corona virus epidemic

* Tan Ky:

On the afternoon of January 31, the Director of Tan Ky Medical Center held an urgent meeting to deploy the epidemic prevention plan.

Accordingly, the unit has decided to establish a Rapid Response Team for epidemic prevention and control consisting of 9 members, including Dr. CKI. Thai Hai Dang - Director of the Medical Center as the Team Leader. The team will be responsible for epidemic prevention and control, directing, investigating and supervising epidemic prevention measures, and fully preparing specialized equipment, supplies, and chemicals to be ready to respond when an epidemic occurs.

Medical staff instruct patients and their families on how to wash their hands.

In addition, the unit has deployed commune health stations to review and make a list of workers returning from epidemic areas, and report to the center for monitoring and supervision.

At the same time, the Director also directed relevant departments and offices to fully prepare machinery, medicine, chemical supplies and response plans when an epidemic occurs, and to place hand sanitizer in public places so that patients can disinfect in the most convenient way.

Isolation rooms have also been prepared at the Internal Medicine Department to maximize control and avoid infection for medical staff and surrounding people when there is a suspected patient.

At the Examination Department, the unit has developed a triage plan and arranged isolation rooms for high-risk patients. At the Surgery Department, the department's fund has been used to buy masks and distribute them free of charge to patients and their families.

Especially for patients being treated at the department as well as their families, medical staff have communicated how to wash hands, how to wear masks properly, how to prevent disease by direct consultation and at the same time encouraged people to propagate in the community.

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* Quy Hop:

On the morning of February 1, comrade Phan Dinh Dat - Standing Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of Quy Hop district and related departments and offices inspected the implementation of measures to prevent and control the Corona epidemic in communes with a large number of people working on unofficial routes from China returning home to celebrate the Canh Ty New Year in the area.

In Dong Hop commune, according to statistics, there were 195 people from China returning home to celebrate Tet scattered from the beginning of December to December 28 of the lunar calendar.

In Minh Hop commune, there are currently 157 people working as labor export workers in China. During Tet, 38 people returned home to celebrate Tet.

Comrade Phan Dinh Dat - Standing Deputy Secretary of the District Party Committee, Chairman of the People's Council of Quy Hop district and relevant departments and offices inspected the implementation of measures to prevent and control the Corona epidemic in the area.

Currently, most of the people returning from China are illegal workers. According to reports from commune leaders, there have been no cases of flu and all are in stable health.

However, in order not to be subjective and negligent with this dangerous epidemic, comrade Phan Dinh Dat - requested that localities arrange forces to grasp the exact number, propagate to people to raise awareness of vigilance to prevent this dangerous epidemic. At the same time, implement measures to protect the health of themselves and the community.

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* Thai Hoa

While masks to prevent pneumonia are in short supply, in Thai Hoa Town, a pharmacy opened and distributed 1,000 free masks to people.

In recent days, when some cases of acute pneumonia from Wuhan were discovered in Vietnam, medical masks at modern pharmacies were always "out of stock", even the price was "pushed" up. However, a pharmacy in Hoa Hieu ward (Thai Hoa town) distributed free masks to people.

Many people came early to receive free masks.

According to our records on the morning of February 1, the pharmacy owner, Ms. Nguyen Thi Huyen Trang, said that the free masks were distributed starting from the morning of the same day, hoping to contribute a small part to help people fight the epidemic, while spreading the message of love and sharing in the community.