Just after 1:00 a.m. on May 14, technician Nguyen Thi Thuy and more than a dozen colleagues were finally laid to rest after a day of hard work testing nearly 15,000 people for the second time.
Ms. Thuy tied her hair in a bun and called a few more colleagues to start the tracing process.
After tracking down the `Fs` of these 6 people, she put down the phone and looked up, the morning sun shining brightly before her eyes.
Medical staff from everywhere were mobilized to Mao Dien to take samples for testing the entire population on the night of May 7.
On May 5, Mao Dien recorded its first positive case.
Mao Dien has 14,000 people with 8 villages, so the need to quickly trace, localize and take samples for testing is a huge pressure.
But when they got to work, they quickly found a way to `communicate` with each other through the name tags on their shirts, through their eyes and nods.
Sleeping little, walking a lot, talking non-stop… but the thing that makes Ms. Thuy the most difficult and tiring is the time when she `hasn’t caught the Fs yet`.
`We were planning to take stronger measures, but at the beginning of the afternoon, he got in the car to go to centralized quarantine. Obviously, he still showed up as scheduled, but deliberately made things difficult, making us extremely stressed.`
As an employee of Thuan Thanh District Medical Center supporting the Mao Dien outbreak, physician Le Thi Nhung said she had never experienced the stressful and exhausted days of the past.
Nhung received her assignment here on the evening of May 7.
After the testing campaign, the number of positive cases increased rapidly, dozens of cases per day.
On May 9, she took on the task of transporting patients to quarantine areas.
Ms. Nhung was soaked and exhausted, unable to take off her protective suit, then vomited and fainted on May 9 at work.
That day, Ms. Nhung was not the only one who was so exhausted that she fainted.
During their rare moments of rest, the `white-shirted female warriors` joked that now no one dares to take off their masks for photos anymore, because everyone’s body is itchy and full of pimples.
The husband of physician Nguyen Thi Huong, an employee of the station, couldn’t hold back his tears and said: `In the video call, her face looked pale, absent-minded, complaining that her whole body was itchy and had pimples because it was too hot.
In many other localities in Bac Ninh province, medical staff are also doing their best to fight the epidemic.
The moment of a weak farewell passed quickly. As soon as she arrived at the hospital, she and 20 colleagues boarded an ambulance and went to Hien Van commune to take rapid test samples for more than 5,000 people.
`From midnight to 12 noon the next day, I was allowed to take off my protective suit. When I took off my clothes, I felt like I had just climbed out of a swimming pool. My face was red, my eyes were red from dehydration. Everyone was weak from hunger. There was no food yet.`
Tien Du district medical staff took advantage of the white night of May 13 to take samples for workers in Yen Phong district.
Tien Du District Hospital became the No. 1 field hospital in Bac Ninh.
The couple are both on the front lines, so Luong doesn’t know when he can call.
On the evening of May 14, from the outer circle of the field hospital, she was transferred to the inner circle – where 86 positive patients will be directly treated.
Doctor Nguyen Thi Thuy Duong, president of the Young Doctors Association of Bac Ninh province, said: `Up to 70% of the province’s medical staff are female, many of them are still young. Work with high intensity and sacrifice.
Strongholds against Covid-19 have become epicenters of the epidemic.
