A corner of the intensive care unit at a facility at the National Hospital for Tropical Disease (Đông Anh District, Hà Nội). — Photo suckhoedoisong.vn HÀ NỘI — While people across the country have been bustling with preparations for Tết (Lunar New Year), medical workers in COVID-19 treatment facilities are working relentlessly to take care of their patients. As the Lunar New Year approaches, Kim Chung campus of the National Hospital for Tropical Disease in Hà Nội’s Đông Anh District hardly sees a person at its main lobby. The facility has turned into one of the end-line COVID treatment facilities, currently attending to the largest number ever of severe and critical SAR-CoV-2 patients in the northern region of Việt Nam. Running at full capacity, the hospital needs to constantly ensure sufficient personnel for all 500 beds, whether on a regular weekday or during New Year's holiday. When the morning shift ends, Đặng Thị Thanh, an employee of the hospital's department of social affairs, takes some time out of her lunch break to find a flower vase for a branch of peach blossoms – the equivalent of a Christmas tree for Tết . "It is a gift from a patient's family; they even brought it right up to our gate,"… Read full this story
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