Vietnam: Three people with fever suspected of MERS

The two people in the North had a fever after returning from China and South Korea, and a man from the South traveled to Dubai. Test results after 4 hours of negative for MERS, patients continue to be monitored.

Three feverish people suspected of MERS

Two northern patients were treated at the Central Hospital of Tropical Diseases, one went to the hospital by himself, one was transferred by the provincial hospital. Both are isolated at 2 rooms of the Emergency Department. After a negative test result, one person has been discharged from the hospital, the other is taken out of the isolation area and sharing a room with another patient. According to the Central Hospital of Tropical Diseases, depending on the progress of the epidemic, there will be an additional isolation room, if the outbreak will isolate the entire hospital.

Patients in the South are being treated at the HCMC Tropical Diseases Hospital. This person has a fever of over 39 degrees.

In the morning of June 7, Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long checked the preparation for receiving suspected cases or MERS at the Central Hospital of Tropical Diseases and North Thang Long Hospital. The Central Hospital of Tropical Diseases is one of two facilities in the country with an international standard testing system. Twelve hospital tests were able to test for MERS, resulting in 4 hours.

Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long (middle white shirt) checked at the Central Hospital of Tropical Diseases.(Photo: Moh.)

Dr. Nguyen Van Kinh, Director of the Central Tropical Hospital, said that the development of severe acute respiratory infections , conventional mechanical ventilation, could not be solved but had to breathe Ecmo - artificial cardiopulmonary technique, new have the chance to save the life of the sick. In addition, MERS causes more kidney failure than SARS, and kidney dialysis usually only partially resolves. Therefore, Dr. Kinh proposed the Ministry of Health to add medical equipment to the emergency treatment area.

Pham Thi Ngoc Dung, head of the hospital nurse who has experience against SARS, said: 'The medical staff in the hospital are all young people, the average age is 25 years old, they have been trained and ready to resist. Translate. Moreover, everyone who works in an infectious environment should be determined beforehand. '

North Thang Long Hospital also planned to respond to different levels of epidemics when the case appeared. When a North Thang Long patient will isolate the infectious department and isolate the whole hospital if the epidemic is complicated. The Department of Examination has established a private clinic for respiratory diseases.

Concerns about the evolution of the situation in Korea - rapid transmission speed; Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long said that the expression of MERS is very similar to other respiratory infections, so it is necessary to classify and isolate patients right from the clinic area. The clinic doctor needs to ask the first thing is the epidemiological history.

' The fastest detection of the disease will help us to control the inability to control the rate of spread of the epidemic. So detect as quickly as possible. The Ministry of Health has also increased the level of supervision, not only severe pneumonia plus epidemiological factors, but also epidemiological factors with added fever regardless of whether high or low must be isolated and taken for testing ', Deputy Minister Long stressed.

He also asked hospitals to do a good job of preventing cross-infection in hospitals between patients - patients, patients - medical staff, health workers - others. When a patient is present, a team of supervisors is required. For example, with Ebola epidemic, there is always someone supervising the doctor who is doing the treatment for the patient. The reason is that just skipping a step in the infection prevention process can spread the disease.

In Korea , on June 7, the number of MERS cases increased to 64, 5 patients died. Officials have published a list of 24 hospitals that treat MERS patients. This list includes 11 hospitals in Gyeonggi Province, 7 in Seoul and 3 in Chungcheongnam Province, 2 hospitals in Daejeon and one in Jeollabuk Province.