HCMC doctor recalls struggles amid pandemic's peak

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Medics in Binh Chieu Ward take a Covid patient to the hospital. Photo courtesy of Binh Chieu health station

 

During the recent outbreak in HCMC, healthcare workers were overwhelmed with a sheer volume of emergency calls, while equipment and human resource shortages posed enormous challenges.

 

At the beginning of July, there were days when Thu Duc City's Binh Chieu Ward recorded more than 100 Covid infections. As the local health station received multiple emergency calls, the phone ringing sound haunted many healthcare workers.

 

"Medics were exhausted while the number of calls kept flushing in," Dr Le Ba Kong, head of Binh Chieu Ward's health station, recalled.

 

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