Hanoi, Aug 3 (VNA) – A hospital providing treatment for COVID-19 patients in Hanoi and the north will be set up at Hanoi University Medical Hospital, the health minister said on Aug 2 Nguyen Thanh Long.
The hospital, which will be inaugurated in mid-August, will house 500 beds.
It will serve as the National COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) that will provide treatment for severe patients and technical support to other COVID-19 medical facilities in the assigned areas.
At the same time, the Ministry of Health is working on the establishment of intensive care units in the second facility of the Vietnam-Germany Friendship Hospital and in the Ha Nam facility of the Bach Hospital. May.
The National Hospital for Tropical Diseases has also been asked to increase the number of beds, especially in intensive care.
On August 2, more than 200 medical workers from Bach Mai Hospital traveled to Ho Chi Minh City to work at a 500-bed treatment hospital for COVID-19 patients.
On the same day, an intensive care unit at the city’s International Hospital, which was set up on August 1, received 70 critically ill patients – VNA
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