Vietnam: Hospital for children in Hanoi severely overloaded

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Hospital for children severely overloaded
April 4, 2014

At present, the hospital receives nearly 1,700 patients, 30 per cent higher than its capacity.— Photo thethaovanhoa

HA NOI (VNS) — The number of children at the National Hospital of Paediatrics in Ha Noi has increased sharply in the last two months, causing overloading and insufficiency of health-care equipment.

At present, the hospital receives nearly 1,700 patients, 30 per cent higher than its capacity.

Vice director of the hospital Le Thanh Hai said that three or four children had to share a bed at the hospital.

About 100-120 patients suffering from serious illness need breathing machines, while 200-250 need oxygen cylinders.

In the respiratory department, which has 14 doctors and 36 nurses, each doctor is in charging of 21 patients, half of whom need breathing machines.

The communicable diseases department, which is handling over 200 measles patients, is also facing a shortage of machines.

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Re: Vietnam: Hospital for children in Hanoi severely overloaded

A different hospital in Hanoi...

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HealthMonday, 03/31/2014 - 09:29
Respiratory patients "jam jam" hospitalized

(AP) - A week ago, the pediatric respiratory care and hospitalization in Hanoi double than normal. The majority of patients to examination is due to diseases of the respiratory tract.

In Pediatrics (Bach Mai Hospital), previous live every night there are only about 50 kids to visit, but now that number has skyrocketed, up to 90-100 children live in one night, in which most patients with respiratory diseases such as viral fever, rhinitis, pharyngitis, pneumonia. Currently only about 60 scientific beds, but inpatient numbers stood at 140 patients, transplantation is that patients have 3-4 people / bed. Hot air, sick babies, crying, every kid should take care to more people more rooms become crowded. One night live, doctors, nurses "leg bye" by right move, continuous care for pediatric patients.

Most of the cases examined and hospitalized with respiratory disease have obvious symptoms are sneezing, runny nose, cough increased, cough, sputum, sore throat, bronchitis. In young children, the signs of not feeding, shortness of breath, cough due to phlegm. Especially children with asthma, the weather condition causing cough, asthma whistled for very heavy. In the case of patients younger than 6 months of age and progresses rapidly to acute and often located in the hospital longer because of hard drugs. Many children have to suck mucus daily spacious, ventilated.

"This year is very much typical of children under 6 months of age with pneumonia (accounting for over 50% of children hospitalized for pneumonia). Moreover, due to sudden weather changes, hot, humid, the proportions of patients relapse lot. Quite a few patients had a treatment every few days to relapse, hospitalization, "Dr. Vu Huu Time, Pediatrics (Bach Mai Hospital) said.

In the group of patients hospitalized with pneumonia treatment, measles pneumonia complications still account for about 40-50%. The cases of measles pneumonia complications happenings worse still common cases of pneumonia. In pediatrics, one week earlier at the same time receive two siblings (brother 25 months old, children 6 months of age) in the state had pneumonia and complications in mechanically ventilated on admission.

Many patients must be readmitted after a few days off sick. Photo: H.Hai


Not only children but the elderly subjects, suffering from chronic diseases have also easily affected by weather changes. Dr. Luong Quoc Chinh, Emergency Department (Bach Mai Hospital), in recent days the patient care and research on influenza disease, acute coronary, myocardial infarction, cerebral stroke ... also increased by about 30%. Cerebral stroke rate tends to increase in the context of changing weather today.

Many patients with high blood pressure is not well controlled, sudden flushes, headaches, severe chest pain, coma, even (in the case of severe brain hemorrhage). To avoid these complications, patients with illnesses, need to control blood sugar and blood pressure, regular checkups.

With flu patients if high fever, lasting 2 days down, dyspnea, rash, bleeding under the skin so the medical establishment. In recent years, the Central Tropical Disease Hospital there are many cases of flu infection but severe events, complications of pneumonia, respiratory failure, critically, of which two were fatal cases, so as not subjective with the flu.

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