The number of COVID-19 cases has increased rapidly since the beginning of April, said Prof Phan Trong Lan, director of the Department of Preventive Medicine under the Ministry of Health (MoH), at a conference on the pandemic prevention and combat held on April 17 in Hanoi.
While the problems related to the legal framework about joint venture and private investment engagement to be solved in the newly-adopted amended Law on Medical Examination and Treatment, bringing about new opportunities for businesses and health facilities, the enforcement will be the answer for long-year expectations.
Nguyen Trong Khoa, deputy head of the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment under the Ministry of Health and a member of the ministry’s task force on Covid-19 prevention and control in HCM City, talked about how hospitals can protect themselves from Covid-19 now Vietnam has shifted towards living with the pandemic.
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Vietnam needs to tighten preventive medicine system
ABO/NDO – “In the context of highly contagious COVID-19 variants, there is no other way for countries to strengthentheir preventive medicine,” according to Nguyen Trong Khoa, deputy director of the Department of Medical Examination and Treatment under the Ministry of Health.
He noted that if preventative medicine fails, no treatment system will be able to handle the pandemic, even in countries with the most advanced healthcare systems such as the US, the UK, the Republic of Korea, and Japan. Therefore, Vietnam must strictly guard its border to prevent, detect, trace, and isolate infected cases appropriately.