The fight against Covid-19 in Nghe An
(Baonghean.vn) - Since the days before Tet until now, those working in the field of Covid-19 prevention and control in Nghe An have rarely had a full night's sleep. Many directive documents were even signed at dawn, when the meeting had just ended.
Lesson 1: Sleepless nights fighting the epidemic
Since the days before Tet, those working in the fight against Covid-19 in Nghe An have rarely had a full night's sleep. Many directives were even signed at dawn, when the meeting had just ended.
On January 23, the first case of Covid-19 infection was detected in our country. At this time, the pandemic not only caused mourning in Wuhan (China) but also directly threatened Vietnam. The milestone of January 23 was truly "unforgettable", because from then on, sleepless nights fighting the epidemic appeared and lasted. Right on that night before Lunar New Year, Nghe An Department of Health held an urgent meeting, advising the province to deploy anti-epidemic measures. Based on this advice, early the next morning (30th of Lunar New Year Canh Ty), an urgent telegram of the Provincial People's Committee directing localities and sectors to implement Covid-19 prevention and control was issued.
Since then, the extraordinary night meetings of the Provincial Party Committee, People's Committee, Provincial Fatherland Front Committee, departments, branches, and localities have become routine. Associate Professor, Dr. Duong Dinh Chinh - Director of the Department of Health said that during the day, members of the Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control at all levels deployed epidemic prevention solutions, and at night, new plans and measures were discussed, agreed upon, and born at 1-2 am. Solutions such as strengthening border quarantine, monitoring cases with suspected clinical symptoms; establishing 8 key hospitals, admitting patients for treatment; establishing 28 centralized quarantine areas to bring citizens related to the epidemic into quarantine; screening people returning from abroad, Bach Mai Hospital; letting students stay home to fight the epidemic... were all born at this time, responding well to the epidemic situation.
In the first two months of 2020, all staff of Nghe An Provincial Center for Disease Control (CDC Nghe An) and District Health Centers had to stay up all night. The tasks of epidemiological investigation, collecting samples, sending samples to Hanoi for testing, and spraying chemicals