Pressure to treat the first Covid-19 patient in Vietnam 5
It was the evening of the 28th of Tet.
The two Chinese patients include Mr. Li Ding, 66 years old, and his son Li Zichao, 22 years old.
Li Ding and his wife came from Wuhan city to Hanoi on January 13, then took a plane to Nha Trang.
Receiving test results from the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City, both patients were positive for nCoV, Dr. Hung could not help but worry.
Putting aside plans to reunite with family and relatives for Tet, the doctors and nurses walked through the isolation room door and quietly began the battle.
Doctor Le Quoc Hung, Head of Tropical Diseases Department, Cho Ray Hospital.
Patient Li Zichao is in good physical condition, so the treatment process only uses one type of fever-reducing medicine, absolutely no antibiotics, and goes to the hospital terrace every morning to sunbathe and exercise.
Doctors let patients rinse their throats with antiseptic solution.
The recommendations of the World Health Organization (WHO) have never applied this method.
The father has many underlying diseases such as diabetes, high blood pressure, coronary artery insufficiency, lung cancer and has undergone surgery…, factors that can cause death at any time.
`A person with both immunodeficiency and many diseases, even a slight change can have a big impact,` Dr. Hung said.
The doctors on the treatment team all understand that if the first patients in Vietnam cannot be cured or die, the situation will become tense.
With dedicated care from the medical staff, the two patients gradually became friendlier.
`Two patients were discharged from the hospital, we all breathed a sigh of relief,` said Dr. Hung.
Le Phuong
