Ho Chi Minh City: Establishing a COVID-19 Resuscitation Center with a scale of 1,000 beds
.jpg)
According to the Department of Health of Ho Chi Minh City, before the epidemic situation was still complicated, the city's Steering Committee for Disease Prevention and Control decided to use the inpatient treatment area of the 2nd Campus Oncology Hospital with a scale of 1,000 resuscitation beds.
The most advantageous point of the COVID-19 Resuscitation Center is the available infrastructure of a hospital with modern infrastructure, which can support breathing for up to 1,000 patients at a time (including oxygen, breathing HFNC non-invasive machine, invasive ventilator).
Specifically, all hospital beds have central oxygen and central suction systems. There are 100 care beds, especially with central compressed air systems besides oxygen and central suctions an infrastructure requirement that is not indispensable to deploy mechanical ventilation for critically ill patients.
Thus, the Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Cho Ray Hospital, which are assigned by the Ministry of Health as the last line for COVID-19 treatment, the city also has a COVID-19 Resuscitation Center with a scale of 1,000 beds.
The resuscitation center will have the participation of emergency resuscitation specialists from 115 People's Hospital, Gia Dinh People's Hospital and specialists who are rotated to work from hospitals. 1st class general hospital of the city and other provinces and cities by the Ministry of Health.
Specialized medical equipment such as ventilators, dialysis machines, ECMO, patient monitors, etc. will be mobilized by the health sector from available resources from city hospitals and will use modern equipment. for the intensive care unit of the Oncology Hospital 2.
In addition, priority will be given to the allocation of equipment transferred by the city's Fatherland Front from donors, as well as medical equipment provided by the Ministry of Health.
When the COVID-19 Resuscitation Center is officially operational, the structure of hospitals and medical facilities participating in the collection, treatment and care of COVID-19 patients in the city will be divided into The 4 floors are as follows:
.jpeg)