Vietnam kicks off largest-ever vaccination campaign VNA
Hanoi (VNA) - Vietnam has launched its largest-ever vaccination campaign, with more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine to be injected.
Vaccinations began on March 8 at the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases and the Hanoi-based National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, and also in northern Hai Duong province, where the third coronavirus outbreak in the country struck in late January.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) said that with 117,600 doses in the first batch delivered in late February, this first phase was the beginning of the largest vaccination campaign in the country’s history.
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A nurse is about to be injected a Covid-19 vaccine shot produced by AstraZeneca at the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases, March 8, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Thu Anh.
Dr Du Le Thanh Xuan of the HCMC Hospital for Tropical Diseases intensive care unit became the first person to be vaccinated against Covid-19 at her hospital.
On Monday morning Xuan, who s still studying, took a day off from classes for her shot, and was accompanied by her husband, also a doctor at the same hospital.
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A medical expert prepares to take samples from workers at a Covid-19 hotpsot in Hai Duong Province, northern Vietnam, January 28, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/The Quynh.
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Nguyen Trung Cap, deputy director of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases, said most of the patients in Hai Duong did not have noticeable symptoms, making it difficult to determine the exact time of exposure. Cap and his colleagues were sent by the Ministry of Health to Hai Duong, Vietnam s biggest Covid-19 hotspot at present, to work at Chi Linh Town s Field Hospital 1, where 165 patients are being treated.
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Field hospitals in Hai Duong put into operation in response to COVID-19 outbreak
Two field hospitals with a combined capacity of treating 600 COVID-19 patients have been set up in northern Hai Duong province within just 24 hours.
At an online meeting on January 29 with health units in charge of establishing the hospitals, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long hailed the fast action of Hai Duong, with the support from the Health Ministry, the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases and Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi.
One of them was built at the medical centre of Chi Linh city, and staffed by 45 doctors and about 70 nurses who can provide treatment for 200 patients. The hospital has admitted 31 patients, including one with underlying diseases and two pregnant women.