Vietnam: To strengthen emergency service, medical examination, and treatment during the Lunar New Year, New Year 2021

According to Vietnam's Official Dispatch 103/KCB-QLCL&CDT, to implement the Directive of the Prime Minister of Vietnam and the Directive of the Minister of Health of Vietnam on strengthening measures to ensure health work during the Lunar New Year of the New Year 2021, to ensure good medical examination and treatment for the citizens during the Tet holiday, the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment-the Ministry of Health suggested that the hospitals under the Ministry of Health, the Departments of Health of the provinces and centrally-run cities, the Health Ministries and branches in Vietnam direct the the unit to perform the following tasks well:

• Four levels of on-duty protection are provided: direct leadership, an information processing hotline, professional duty, administrative duty-logistics, and guard duty-self-defense.The list of staff on duty must be posted in the faculties and departments. Having a plan for fire, explosion, disaster, and mass accident prevention; cold prevention for patients; being ready to provide technical support to the lower level, providing professional advice when necessary;

• Proactively dealing with the epidemic, especially the COVID-19 epidemic, accidents, poisoning, and possible mass emergencies: Continue to follow the directions of the Government and the health sector on the prevention of the COVID-19 epidemic. Develop a permanent plan, stockpile the number of drugs, infusion fluids, supplies and chemicals, arrange the number of hospital beds, and emergency and out-of-hospital emergency equipment to be ready to respond, to ensure good collection, emergency treatment, and isolation of patients in accordance with current guidelines on epidemic prevention and control;

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Details can be found in Vietnam's Official Dispatch 103/KCB-QLCL&CDT issued on February 1, 2021.

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