Braving the floodwaters at night helps ensure a safe delivery for both mother and child.

At 4:16 PM on September 27th, the CentermedicaldistrictQuy ChauWe received information that a pregnant woman in labor needed urgent assistance. Accordingly, this woman was facing a "dilemma" as she was surrounded by floodwaters and unable to reach a medical facility to give birth.

Specifically: The pregnant woman in labor is from Luong Lanh village, Chau Binh commune, Quy Chau district. Before going into labor, she had a check-up and ultrasound, which indicated a large fetus. When labor began, it was determined to be a difficult delivery, so midwife Vi Thi Ly (Chau Binh commune health station) took her to the Quy Chau District Health Center to give birth.

However, upon reaching Bu Bai slope in Chau Hanh commune, the medical staff and the pregnant woman were unable to proceed further due to landslides caused by heavy rain and flooding. Midwife Vi Thi Ly and the family decided to take the pregnant woman back to the Que Phong District Health Center to give birth. However, this road was also impassable due to flooding.

Faced with this situation, midwife Vi Thi Ly called the Quy Chau District Health Center for guidance and was instructed by the leaders of the Quy Chau District Health Center to take the pregnant woman to the Chau Thang Health Station (the nearest one) for childbirth.

Immediately afterwards, the leaders of the Quy Chau District Health Center dispatched an emergency medical team to the Chau Thang Health Station to provide assistance, and instructed two midwives to closely monitor and continuously report on the pregnant woman's condition. However, due to heavy rain and landslides, the emergency medical team was unable to reach the Chau Thang Health Station.

Faced with the urgent situation, the Quy Chau District Health Center reported to the district leadership. The Quy Chau district leadership directed the relevant units to urgently clear the road so that the emergency team could reach the health station to assist the pregnant woman in giving birth, and if necessary, perform surgery to deliver the baby…

By 7 PM, the landslides had been cleared, and National Highway 48 was reopened. The emergency medical team from the Quy Chau District Health Center immediately rushed to the Chau Thang Commune Health Station to assist the pregnant woman.

At approximately 8 PM that same day, with the assistance of doctors and medical staff, the mother gave birth naturally to a baby boy weighing 3.2 kg. The baby cried loudly and fed well. During the delivery, due to the large size of the fetus, the mother's pelvic area suffered a complex tear. Medical staff sutured the wound to stop the bleeding, and an ambulance transported the mother to the Quy Chau District Health Center for further monitoring and treatment, while also administering vaccinations to the baby. At this time, both the mother and baby boy are in stable condition, and both are doing well.

During this period of heavy rain and flooding, Quy Chau district suffered very serious damage, with one death, 1,210 houses submerged in water from 1-5 meters deep; over 5,000 people displaced; 3 communes and 6 villages completely isolated, and 7 schools deeply submerged. Thousands of families are facing dire circumstances, living in makeshift shelters and suffering from hunger and cold due to the collapse, washing away, and flooding of their property and homes.

To ensure disease prevention and control, and to help people quickly stabilize their lives, immediately after the floodwaters receded, the Quy Chau District Health Center dispatched many staff members from the center and health stations to people's homes in villages and hamlets to assist them in treating water sources and disinfecting the surrounding environment.

Dr. Dang Tan Minh, Director of the Quy Chau District Health Center, said: The center has distributed more than 21,000 Aquatabs tablets and 52 kg of Chloramin B to 12 communes and towns for water treatment. Health officials have directly instructed each household on personal hygiene, environmental hygiene, ensuring food is cooked thoroughly and water is boiled; and have directly treated drinking water for the people.

At this time, the Quy Chau District Health Center is also stepping up its efforts to raise public awareness about the risks of various diseases after the floods; strengthening surveillance, promptly detecting and thoroughly handling any disease outbreaks that may occur.