Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam: Province needs to further uphold "mutual love and affection" spirit in Covid-19 prevention and control

Early August 24, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam inspected Covid-19 fight in Binh Duong province. Accompanying the Deputy Prime Minister was Lieutenant General Nguyen Duy Ngoc, member of the Party Central Committee, Deputy Minister of Public Security. Nguyen Van Loi, member of the Party Central Committee, Secretary of provincial Party Committee, Head of provincial National Assembly Deputy Delegation, Head of provincial Steering Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control; Vo Van Minh, Vice-Secretary of provincial Party Committee, Chairman of provincial People's Committee received the Deputy Prime Minister.

More aids needed

Reporting to Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, Mr. Minh said that the whole province now has 15 wards out of 91 communes, wards and towns that are implementing absolute isolation: “stay where one is”, “isolation from people to people, household to household". The total number of patients being treated is 14,953 and there have been 16,105 patients given the all-clear and 898 others in critical conditions.

Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam visits people who are implementing the Prime Minister’s Directive No.16 in Thuan An city’s Thuan Giao ward

Regarding the situation of the pandemic in the industrial parks, there are 1,885 enterprises under the "3 on-site" or "1 route, 2 destinations" production models. In 15 wards implementing absolute isolation, the province has distributed food bags worth 50,000 VND each to the local people. Provincial Fatherland Front Committee has spent VND80 billion on purchasing medical equipment and supplies to take care of social welfare and to support frontline anti-Covid-19 forces. The whole province has supported nearly VND 760 billion for nearly 1.4 million people affected by the pandemic.

Up to now, there have been 4 medical delegations ending their support programs in the province. The province now has 27 support units along with 114 doctors and nurses from non-public units with a total of 1,534 people. There are also 1,850 soldiers from military and police forces. Mr. Minh wanted that the Government and the Prime Minister will further provide financial support for the province to take care of about 1.2 million people in 15 wards of Thuan An city, Di An city and Tan Uyen town that are implementing the Prime Minister’s Directive No.16. The Ministry of Health needs to further allocate vaccines against Covid-19 to the province in order to give injection for people in the "red zone", urgently provide the province with 10,000 doses of Remdesivir, 10,000 doses of Enoxaparin, and 10,000 doses of Molnupiravir to treat Covid-19 patients. The province also wanted that the Ministry of Health will support specialists for Covid-19 treatment facilities together with equipment and machinery, including high-flow ventilators; strengthen doctors and workers for 100 mobile medical stations. Each medical station needs 1 doctor and 2 nurses to serve the "red zone" zones and promptly respond to outpatients in need of support.

At the meeting, delegates discussed and asked for the Ministry of Health to consider and strengthen more support forces for Binh Duong because the province’s level of pandemic spread and deep infection is no less than some areas of Ho Chi Minh city. Regarding treatment, Assoc. Prof. - Dr. Nguyen Lan Hieu, Director of Hanoi Medical University Hospital, Medical Director of Binh Duong Emergency Resuscitation Field Hospital said that the province’s 3 treatment floors have basically stabilized. The number of hospitalized patients and the number of recovered and discharged patients are similar. The most difficult problem in Binh Duong at the moment is the lack of medical staff to care for and treat patients.

Mobilizing F0 cases given the all-clear to help the new ones

Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam emphasized that Binh Duong should focus on propagandizing and mobilizing people in the "red zone" to strictly implement the Prime Minister’s Directive No.16. In the case of having F0 cases in the community, the province needs to mobilize people to promote the spirit of "mutual love" to help each other because these cases not only need medicine, but especially need to have good nutrition for physical conditions to improve their resistance.

Therefore, the province needs to call for F0 cases who have recovered from the pandemic to return to participate in pandemic prevention and control; help and encourage other F0 cases to try to overcome the pandemic and win against Corona virus with an optimistic spirit. The province should call on all the local retired medical forces to voluntarily participate in pandemic prevention and control. The Deputy Prime Minister also shared with difficulties in pandemic prevention and control of the province and wanted that the province’s entire political system will continue uniting and gradually bringing people's lives back to the "new normal" state.

Receiving the close instruction of Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, Mr. Loi said that the province is determined to make efforts to strictly implement the directions of the Government. The whole political system of the province will make more efforts, closely following the developments of the pandemic to put forward measures to handle the situation, thereby promptly overcoming the difficulties of the pandemic.

After the meeting with the province, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam visited and inspected Covid-19 fight in Thuan An city’s Thuan Giao and An Phu wards. Visiting households in Thuan Giao ward, the Deputy PM encouraged them to join hands with the province to overcome difficulties at present. He also asked local authorities to pay further attention to the live of residents there and distribute food to them as soon as possible.

In An Phu ward where rapid COVID-19 testing is conducted, Mr. Dam offered encouragement to front-line medical staff working there. He also urged the province’s medical sector to instruct locals how to test COVID-19 themselves to avoid mass gatherings and reduce overload on the forces taking samples for testing.

Reported by Kim Ha-Translated by K.T