Information from the hospital, on the morning of June 15, a male patient came for examination with symptoms of fever and cough, was screened, transferred to a separate examination area and isolated, and the RT-PCR test result was positive for nCoV.
The wife of the above outpatient, who works at the Department of Neurology, also tested positive.
The couple was transferred to Cu Chi Covid-19 Treatment Hospital.
The hospital quickly isolated the Neurology Department and took samples for RT-PCR testing of all medical staff, patients and caregivers in the department.
Epidemiological investigation showed that, previously, on June 12, the wife of a photocopying service provider (service provider partner at the Medical and Pharmaceutical Hospital) entered the ground floor area of the hospital from 5:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.
This photocopier’s wife is an employee of the Hospital for Tropical Diseases, part of the infection chain at this hospital.
The Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital has traced and taken samples for testing of 3,621 medical staff, service providers, students, patients, and patients’ families at the hospital. Currently all are negative, no further records have been recorded.
This morning, the hospital held an emergency meeting with the Ho Chi Minh City Center for Disease Control (HCDC) to have a plan to prevent and respond to disease developments.
Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital announced that it will temporarily suspend medical examination and treatment operations from June 16 to serve Covid-19 prevention.
Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital is a hospital directly under the Ministry of Health, the last line in the South, and is also a hospital participating in the frontline forces against the epidemic.
Medical staff take samples for RT-PCR testing at Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital.
Recently, Ho Chi Minh City detected many Covid-19 cases through screening examinations at hospitals.
In Ho Chi Minh City, Covid-19 has invaded 5 hospitals: Tropical Diseases Hospital, Gia Dinh People’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital 1, Tan Phu District and South Saigon.
Gia Dinh People’s Hospital, Binh Thanh District, had two employees of the Microbiology Department testing positive, recorded on the evening of June 13, related to the infection cluster at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
As of the morning of June 16, Ho Chi Minh City recorded 980 cases of infection with 14 chains of infection.
HCDC believes that in the current situation, pathogens may still spread in the community.