Medical staff stay up all night testing COVID-19 for ... medical staff

From the night of February 8 to the morning of February 9, the 175 Military Hospital and the Pasteur Institute of Ho Chi Minh City, the Southern Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology urgently took samples to test COVID-19 for 1,800 staff members. , staff of the hospital.

Military Hospital 175 (Ministry of Defense) is the place where patient 1979 (staff at Tan Son Nhat airport) used to go before being discovered infected with COVID-19. Immediately after detecting this case, the hospital quarantined and took samples to test all those exposed.

On February 8, before the complicated progress of the epidemic (25 new cases were recorded), the city asked to test all staff and staff of the 175 Hospital.

The number of samples that need to be collected is very large when there are about 1,800 staff members, nurses, doctors and staff working at the hospital, so the sampling force has to work overnight.

With the spirit of "speedy, fierce", they leave behind families and children, leave the upcoming Tet holiday, race against time to 'trace COVID' for their colleagues, so that colleagues feel secure to take care of the community's health.

"Translating COVID-19 is no longer a problem for anyone. No matter how hard we stay awake, we just expect all the samples to be negative," said a medical staff.

To this morning, February 9, 175 Military Hospital said there were 1,779 samples with negative results for COVID-19.

                                                       The examination of 1,800 hospital staff lasted overnight 8-2 - Photo: TRAN MANG

Medical staff test samples for colleagues at 175 Military Hospital - Photo: TRAN Chinh

The number of samples to be taken is very large. There are about 1,800 staff, doctors, doctors, staff working at the hospital - Photo: TRAN Chinh

Medical staff processed the following samples - Photo: TRAN MANG

All are cautious, fully equipped with protective gear - Photo: TRAN MANG

Wear multi-layer gloves to prevent viruses. - Photo: TRAN MANG

Technician Vu Nhu Quynh focused on sampling for colleagues at 175 Military Hospital - Photo: TRAN MANG

Technicians Nguyen Thi Tham and Nguyen Ngoc Thuy are exhausted, a good sleeper on a plastic chair - Photo: TRAN Chinh

Enlist and talk to your baby through face time - Photo: TRAN MANG

Source: https://tuoitre.vn/nhan-vien-y-te-thuc-trang-dem-xet-nghiem-covid-19-cho-nhan-vien-y-te-20210209040240059.htm