Vietnam turns Danang stadium into field hospital amid virus outbreak

[snoop1130]

Vietnam turns Danang stadium into field hospital amid virus outbreak

By Khanh Vu and Phuong Nguyen

 

 

HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam is close to completing the conversion of a sports stadium into a 1,000-bed field hospital in its new coronavirus epicentre Danang, the health ministry said on Thursday, as it battles an outbreak that has spread to at least 11 locations.

 

Aggressive contact-tracing, targeted testing and strict quarantining had helped Vietnam halt an earlier contagion, but it is now racing to control infections in the central city and beyond after a new outbreak ended a run of more than three months without domestic transmission.

 

Danang's Tien Son Sports Palace will from Saturday be used to treat an overflow of infected patients should the city's hospitals become overwhelmed, said the company behind the project, Sun Group.

 

Danang has reported more than 200 cases since the virus reappeared there on July 25. Authorities have said the situation was "under control" and the outbreak would likely peak in the next 10 days.

 

If infection numbers stabilise, the facility would be used to isolate people who were in direct contact with a positive case, as part of Vietnam's centralised quarantine programme, Sun Group said.

 

The health ministry reported five new COVID-19 infections on Thursday, taking Vietnam's total cases to 718, with 10 deaths.

 

Most recent cases have links to three hospitals in Danang, a coastal city that was until recently inundated with domestic tourists capitalising on holiday promotions and easing restrictions.

 

The health ministry has sent a task force of medical experts and more than 1,000 health workers to Danang, while Cuba has also dispatched a medical team to Vietnam to assist.

 

In the capital Hanoi, 72,000 people who recently returned from Danang would be re-tested, the city's governing body said on Thursday, this time using a swab-based test, known for its higher rate of accuracy than the blood sample-based rapid test kits, which Vietnam has used for mass screening.

 

Vietnam's Prime Minister has said early August was the "decisive" time to contain the outbreak. 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2020-08-06

 

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[ukrules]

36 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

If infection numbers stabilise, the facility would be used to isolate people who were in direct contact with a positive case, as part of Vietnam's centralised quarantine programme, Sun Group said.

I can't see much isolation in that photo, sure they're cut off from the rest of the population but if even one person who's sent there is infected on the way in everyone present will be infected before they leave.

 

What they're doing here is making sure everyone who could have been potentially exposed to it is exposed to it.

 

It's one of the dumbest things I've seen this year and there's plenty of examples of dumb going around lately.

 

They might as well call it a COVID infection center.

[Bkk Brian]

Not really, similar to Nightingale hospital in London they were built for the milder cases and overflow cases, Vietnam is just making plan b preparations, good job.

 

 

[ukrules]

The plan with the nightingale hospitals was to receive only patients on ventilators, not the potentially infected / mildly inconvenienced.

 

They were flying them in on chinooks and transferring them in specialised ambulances designed to transfer those on life support to make space for others in the regional hospitals.

 

The nightingale hospitals were special treatment zones for the expected severely ill patients, all of which were in induced comas whilst on ventilators whereas this place in Danang is to house people who may have had contact with someone who was infected while they wait to see if they also test positive.

 

Back to my original point - they're sending healthy people there, they won't stay healthy in this environment.

[Bkk Brian]

20 minutes ago, ukrules said:

The plan with the nightingale hospitals was to receive only patients on ventilators, not the potentially infected / mildly inconvenienced.

 

They were flying them in on chinooks and transferring them in specialised ambulances designed to transfer those on life support to make space for others in the regional hospitals.

 

The nightingale hospitals were special treatment zones for the expected severely ill patients, all of which were in induced comas whilst on ventilators whereas this place in Danang is to house people who may have had contact with someone who was infected while they wait to see if they also test positive.

 

Back to my original point - they're sending healthy people there, they won't stay healthy in this environment.

Ok so my original statement said "milder" happy to change that to:

 

Nightingale hospital in London 'to treat less critical Covid-19 cases' Two-tier plan keeps older and very seriously ill patients at existing NHS sites

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/30/nightingale-hospital-in-london-to-treat-less-critical-covid-19-cases

[mrfill]

10 hours ago, ukrules said:

The plan with the nightingale hospitals was to receive only patients on ventilators, not the potentially infected / mildly inconvenienced.

 

They were flying them in on chinooks and transferring them in specialised ambulances designed to transfer those on life support to make space for others in the regional hospitals.

 

The nightingale hospitals were special treatment zones for the expected severely ill patients, all of which were in induced comas whilst on ventilators whereas this place in Danang is to house people who may have had contact with someone who was infected while they wait to see if they also test positive.

 

Back to my original point - they're sending healthy people there, they won't stay healthy in this environment.

Back to the original article which clearly states  "be used to treat an overflow of infected patients should the city's hospitals become overwhelmed"

 

Infected people are not healthy.

[Bender Rodriguez]

and link to find age of people who are sick & died ?

[natway09]

I think it is a good idea. Better than sending them to a hospital & infecting all the other patients

Did suggest they could use Impact MTT here if needed. Keep them away from general  

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