Hanoi launches pilot project to integrate electronic health records into VNeID app
The system allows citizens to conveniently manage their medical histories and provides medical professionals with up-to-date information anytime, anywhere.
The system allows citizens to conveniently manage their medical histories and provides medical professionals with up-to-date information anytime, anywhere.
Vietnam has not used chloroquine to treat Covid-19, neither has the health ministry recommended the drug to prevent the disease.
A doctor in Hanoi who is responsible for treating Covid-19 patients is among the infected cases today.
The doctor at the National Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Hanoi has participated in the fight against the pandemic since the end of January.
Nearly half of the newly-detected cases are students coming from Europe.
Bach Mai Hospital in Hanoi city still carries out medical examination and emergency as usual.
A health official affirms that there’s no secondary transmission at Bach Mai Hospital so far.
The man, identified as “patient 18”, was allowed to go home after having tested negative for the coronavirus three times.
The new cases announced on March 19 have lifted the toll of infections in the country to 85, including 16 cured and discharged from hospital by February 26.
Four new cases today were found in Hanoi, putting the city at the top in Vietnam with 20 infected people.
The Ministry of Health has built plans to treat more than 3,000 Covid-19 patients.
Vietnam's doctors will keep consulting and providing daily professional support for the treatment of the two patients in serious conditions.
Of the 61 active cases, 18 are foreigners, including 13 Britons.
Hanoi now has 12 cases positive with the virus, the largest number of infections in Vietnam.
Among the 53 positive cases so far, 17 are foreign citizens and 36 Vietnamese.
The latest patient has become the 11th person linked to the 34th case so far.
The latest case is a flight attendant who served a flight from London which landed in Hanoi on March 9.
Hanoi has set up five rapid response teams who are on standby 24/7 to fight the epidemic.
So far, eight people have got infected from patient 34, making her the largest source of contagion so far.
This is the first time in Vietnam the expanded immunization model (free of charge) has been implemented at central-level hospitals.
The confirmed cases are now seen in 123 countries and territories while death roll surpasses 4,600.