Training on epidemic control for NDUN staffs and students to support Bac Giang province

Facing the urgent situation caused by the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic in Bac Giang province, implementing the Document No. 605/K2DT-DT on 26^th May 2021 issued by MOH Department of Science, Technology and Investment about mobilizing staffs, lecturers, learners, students to participate in supporting epidemic control in Bac Giang province. On 27^th May 2021, NDUN delegation support Bac Giang Province to fight against Covid-19 was trained. The delegation is ready for held a group of 54 staff, lecturers and students who were ready to go to bac Giang Province on 28^th May 2021.

Participating in the training session there were epidemiologists from CDC Nam Dinh, NDUN lecturers and 54 voluntary NDUN staffs and students.

At the training session, the volunteers were equipped with contents related to COVID-19 control by epidemiologists from Nam Dinh CDC and NDUN lecturers, including: organizing and implementing medical isolation in areas with COVID-19 epidemic; measures to control the COVID-19 epidemic; instructions on cleaning and disinfecting, using masks to prevent COVID-19 epidemic properly; taking samples, preserving and transporting specimens; guiding the use of chlorine-containing disinfectants in epidemic control; instructions for using the COVID-19 case survey form; guidelines for the care of patients with COVID-19.

Speaking at the training session, Dr. Truong Tuan Anh – NDUN Vice Rector, in charge of NDUN acknowledges the contributions of NDUN staffs and students who always have the enthusiasm, bravery and confidence of a medical staff and volunteer to the epidemic areas in the fight against the epidemic. Dr. Truong Tuan Anh appreciates their efforts in protecting the community’s health besides their tasks of teaching and studying. He asked the delegation not to be negligent and subjective. They should seriously perform assigned tasks, take care of themselves, properly implement epidemic control for the dual task of fighting the epidemic and completing the 2020-2021 study plan.

NDUN delegation with the spirit of volunteerism and professional knowledge will be a leading force in Covid-19 control in Bac Giang in cooperation with doctors from other hospitals.

There are strong sollutions and manpower to support Bac Giang as follows:

5 strong sollutions

1. Follow the distancing. The special standing division of the Ministry of Health and the province re-evaluated the risks of all districts, not only the 4 districts that are isolated under the Directive No.16.

2. Trace thoroughly. For all cases of outbreaks in the community, strictly follow the principles of tracing, isolating, stamping out, treating. No F1 cases are left out.

3. Areas with many workers such as My Dien, Nui Hieu, Trung Dong... must be frozen.  The centralized isolation for these areas should be applied and it will be expanded to other areas if there are many workers and risk factors.
4. COVID-19 teams in the community should be re-organized. They should go to each alley, knock at each house and check each person.

5. Clean the environment through multi-loop test as the chain of infection can not stop without being cleaned up by testing and imposed centralized isolation. 

More than 20.000 are ready to support Bac Giang

Currently, the testing capacity in Bac Giang province is 17,000 samples/day, but in the current situation, experts propose to organize teams of 5 people for sampling and data entry. In epidemic areas, it is possible to organize 100-200 sampling points and transfer tests by rapid antigen testing technique to speed up the return of results. This is a widespread "scanning" measure for case screening.

Regarding the scenario fot the current situation, Bac Giang has a plan if there are 3,000 patients. The treatment facilities are now able to meet the number of detected patients. Severe patients are transferred to the newly established 58-bed intensive care unit (but only 14 beds are fully equipped with intensive treatment equipment).

The next step is to implement more strongly the distancing in medical isolation areas to prevent cross-contamination. If a series of measures are implemented, the situation in Bac Giang can be controlled.

The Minister of Health has ordered medical schools across the country to prepare their forces with more than 20,000 people. They will be co-ordinated and trained by MOH Department of Science, Training and Technology to support Bac Giang to replace the current force fighting the epidemic in the province.

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