Currently, the number of F0 tends to increase in Ho Chi Minh City.
The Department of Health decided to set up 20 more mobile medical stations in District 12, 8 more stations in Binh Chanh district, 4 more stations in Hoc Mon district and 1 more station in Binh Tan district, to take care of F0 quarantined at home, according to the official dispatch issued by the Ministry of Health.
Last week, the Department of Health opened 40 more mobile medical stations in Hoc Mon.
Localities arrange locations for mobile medical stations to operate, check examination, monitoring, and dispensing medicine for F0 who are quarantined at home and in centralized quarantine.
Health centers and health stations keep a list of F0 households with people in the high-risk group who have not been vaccinated living together, to closely monitor their health and deploy vaccination immediately.
The mobile military medical team in Ward 11, Binh Thanh District prepares to take samples and instruct people on quick testing on August 23.
At a press conference earlier this week, Deputy Director of the Department of Health Nguyen Hoai Nam said that when the epidemic situation became tense, the city established 550 mobile medical stations combined with 312 medical stations in wards, communes and towns.
According to Mr. Nam, currently maintaining mobile medical stations is still very necessary.
The military medical force is expected to withdraw at the end of November. The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health has a plan to hand over the mobile medical station to localities to deploy depending on the actual situation.
The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health recently assigned public and private hospitals to compile a list of reserve doctors and nurses to participate in mobile medical stations, rotating to work at the city’s field hospitals.
From the beginning of October, after more than four months of quarantine, Ho Chi Minh City began adjusting measures for epidemic prevention and socio-economic recovery and development.
However, in the context of activities gradually returning to bustle, production businesses and monitoring of epidemic developments in recent days shows that the number of new cases being treated at home and at medical facilities has increased.
Since November 7, the number of daily cases in Ho Chi Minh City has exceeded 1,000.
Le Phuong
