Deputy Minister of Health checke
Deputy Minister of Health checked
Binh Thuan’s Covid-19 preventive work
BTO- On March 15th
morning, a delegation led by Deputy Minister Nguyen Truong Son arrived in Binh
Thuan to checked the local preventive task.
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Deputy Minister of Health checked preventive work in Binh Thuan |
As of March 14th, the
whole province has had 9 cases of Sars-CoV-2 infections with 203 cases of F1 who
are being isolated at 812; 761 cases of F2 who are being monitored at their
home, confirmed Director of the Department of Health Nguyen Quoc Viet.
Mr. Nguyen Duc Hoa, Vice
Chairman of the provincial People’s committee said that, as the first case
showed positive with Sars-CoV-2 was reported (also known as Patient No.34), the
province has promptly identified persons who had contacted with the patient and
prepared all procedures for isolation. For some reasons, the Patient No.34 has
not fully provided her contactors over the previous time. Therefore, the rapid
response teams of the health sector, as well as the political organizations have
made all efforts to combat with the disease, especially the isolation and
prevention works.
At the working session, Binh
Thuan has proposed the Ministry of Health to promptly provide a laboratories for
the province; give assistance on human resources when the epidemic developments
is getting worse. To proactively prevent and control the epidemics effectively,
the Department of Health requested the Ministry of Health to provide protective
equipment for the preparation of prevention and treatment tasks in the locality.
Deputy Minister Son highly
appraised the province’s efforts on the detection, preparation, isolation and
localization so that Covid-19 patient-related persons can be identified and
isolated timely. He recommended the province to keen on resolution and
preventive measures as regulation, suggesting the local Health sector should set
up plan to review and distribute human resources and medical equipment from
not-yet needed areas to the epicenter.
Deputy Minister Son urged the
locality to quickly complete documents and submit proposals to the Ministry for
consideration. He assessed the high spirit of the whole political and state
systems as well as the people on the fighting against the spread of coronavirus
in the locality.
Two streets in Phan Thiet were
locked down last Friday after nine people in the area tested Covid-19 positive.Three
checkpoints have been erected to restrict entry and exit on Hoang Van Thu and
Ngo Si Lien Streets, both in Duc Thang Ward. Around 30 families live in the
quarantined area.
Translated by My
Thien (Source: Binh Thuan Online)