Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long. Photo: Nguyen Nhien

Setting up mobile medical stations is one of the solutions to fight the Covid-19 pandemic in southern provinces.

Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long, during an online meeting on solutions to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic on August 18, said that mobile medical stations would be set up in Ho Chi Minh City, Long An, Dong Nai and Binh Duong provinces.

He said that in this situation, it is very important to take care of and treat Covid-19 patients in community-based models so that people can access health services without interruption.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Health will cooperate with Ho Chi Minh City and some southern provinces to set up mobile medical stations at commune and ward levels with the motto "clinging to the people, close to the people and serving the people".

Each commune and ward have one medical station, but in the current context, more medical stations will be arranged, especially in densely populated areas, where many people are infected with Covid-19 as in Ho Chi Minh City.

"The establishment of mobile medical stations is to serve the management and treatment of infected people in the community, firstly in Ho Chi Minh City," the Minister said.

Long asked other provinces to be ready to deploy this model so that it can be activated immediately in necessary cases. The Ministry of Health will issue temporary guidance on management, care and treatment of F0 cases at home and guidelines on operating the model of mobile medical stations.

Mobile medical stations can be set up at gymnasiums, polyclinics, cultural houses, People's Committees of communes and wards, or people's houses that are isolated from surrounding houses or even on the street.

Each mobile health station will have 1-2 doctors, 5-7 medical staff and volunteers who are knowledgeable about the local population and situation.

Each mobile medical station will be equipped with at least two oxygen tanks, oxygen masks and other first aid tools. Portable emergency medicine bags also are needed.

Mobile medical stations will provide primary health care for patients, giving medicines for chronic patients; manage, care for, and treat F0 cases without or with mild symptoms; perform quick tests and some other tests; organize vaccinations and carry out communication tasks in the community.

The Ministry of Health asked Ho Chi Minh City to arrange suitable personnel for mobile medical stations, and to arrange ambulances to transport seriously ill patients to medical facilities at higher levels.

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