Three more ICU facilities take shape in HCM City as severe cases rise
VOV.VN - The Ministry of Health has assigned centrally-run hospitals to urgently establish three intensive care unit (ICU) centres in order to provide treatment to severely-ill COVID-19 patients in Ho Chi Minh City.
The request was made by Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long during a virtual meeting with the administration of Ho Chi Minh City on July 29.
One of the most important issues is how to save COVID-19 patients who are in critical condition in order to reduce the mortality rate, Long said.
Along with 1,000 ICU beds in use at present, he said the Health Ministry will work closely with local authorities to establish three more ICU centres that can treat severely-ill patients.
The three centres will take shape in Thu Duc city, field hospital No 16 and field hospital No 13, and they will be run by Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital, Bach Mai Hospital, both from Hanoi, and Hue Central Hospital.
As soon as the new ICU centres are put into operation, they are capable of receiving 3,000 severe and severely ill patients.
