Medical students have volunteered to join COVID-19 frontline forces in the south

The Ministry alone deployed more than 11,400 doctors, nurses, and orderlies of hospitals, as well as lecturers and students of medical schools to Ho Chi Minh City and other southern localities that are currently coronavirus hotspots.

Meanwhile, northern and central provinces sent more than 1,730 healthcare workers, comprising doctors, nurses, and volunteers, to join the forces.

In addition, the Ministry of Health dispatched directors of the five centrally run hospitals to head intensive care unit (ICU) centres in the south to treat critically ill patients.

Along with human resources support, the Ministry also supplied southern provinces with medical supplies including respirators, RT-PCR testing machines, ECMO machines, test kits, face masks and chemicals for disinfection.