Having more mobile medical station and speeding up drug delivery for F0 at home

At the press conference of the Ho Chi Minh City Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control (Steering Committee) on the afternoon of September 6, before information about the delay in drug delivery for F0 for home treatment, Mr. Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Deputy Director The Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health said that during the recent large-scale testing, the number of F0 cases increased and the list was not updated in time. Therefore, there was a situation where medicine had not yet been distributed for F0 to be isolated at home.

The city has a plan to increase the number of medical staff and doctors from hospitals to district, district, ward and commune levels; The military medical force also increased 28 mobile medical teams. The Health sector will continue to improve the working process to speed up drug delivery for home treatment F0; when detecting F0 for treatment at home, immediately distribute medicine, coordinate with 3 teams to test, take care of F0 and vaccinate to speed up drug delivery.

Information about the epidemic situation in the area in the past 24 hours, a representative of the Center for Disease Control of Ho Chi Minh City said that the city is treating 42,863 cases. The total number of patients discharged from the hospital from January 1, 2021 up to now is 125,481 people. The number of F0 people in concentrated isolation areas is more than 24,100 people, the number of F0 people isolated at home is nearly 84,000 people, and the number of F0 people after being discharged from hospital to continue isolation and monitoring at home is more than 27,500 people.

Re-opening the transshipment point at Binh Dien wholesale market

At the press conference, Mr. Nguyen Nguyen Phuong, Deputy Director of the Department of Industry and Trade of Ho Chi Minh City, said that the city has not yet had specific guidelines and directions on reopening the traditional market.

According to Mr. Phuong, up to now, most of the traditional markets in Ho Chi Minh City are temporarily closed to prevent the epidemic. As planned, tomorrow (September 7), Ho Chi Minh City will reopen the transshipment point at Binh Dien wholesale market. Mr. Phuong affirmed that the reopening of this transshipment point is to help bring local sources of goods to Ho Chi Minh City to places such as collective kitchens, food business stores and some retailers, etc. to reopen the operation of the wholesale market.

A representative of the Department of Industry and Trade also said that from August 23 to now, it has organized "helping to go to the market" for more than 1.3 million households (accounting for 99% of the total number of registered households). In order to ensure that the supply chain of goods is not interrupted or broken, to meet the needs of goods and food for the people, Ho Chi Minh City has expanded, allowing some employees of the goods supply network to work together. vehicles are circulated; additional 20,000 travel papers for retail system employees; allowing the shipper team to operate to support local forces. As a result, many problems have been solved in the supply of food and food during the time of isolation.

The Ho Chi Minh City Welfare Center has also provided over 1.6 million welfare bags for people out of a total of 2 million bags. The spending of support packages has been accelerated, so far, over 4,896 billion VND has been spent. The city has mobilized more than 85,000 inn owners to exempt or reduce rents for 670,000 rooms with an amount of over VND 329 billion. Press agencies also questioned whether the City would use a common software for all data on medical declarations, population mobility, vaccination and whether after September 15, Does the city issue e-passports to people who have had 2 doses of the vaccine?

Deputy Director of the Department of Information and Communications Tu Luong said that these contents are the tasks that Secretary of the City Party Committee Nguyen Van Nen has directed and assigned the Department of Information and Communications of Ho Chi Minh City to coordinate with the Ministry of Information and Communications to develop piloting throughout District 7 right this week. After the pilot results are available, it is expected that by the end of the week, the Steering Committee will hold a press conference to inform about the above issues.

Bang Tam
E- government