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Severe bed shortage sends Saigon child patients to hospital hallway
By Vien An, Thanh Nien News
HO CHI MINH CITY - Tuesday, October 06, 2015 19:05
Children patients in Ho Chi Minh are not just sharing beds.
They are sleeping under the beds, in the hallway or just wherever their parents can find enough space for a hammock or a small mattress.
The outbreaks of multiple diseases are resulting in the biggest crowds of the decade in many pediatric hospitals in the city.
Children?s Hospital No.1 and No.2, the leading ones in the city, have received a heavy flow of patients since the beginning of October.
The latter is having more than 7,000 children brought in for examinations every day and more than 2,000 inpatients.
Doctor Ngo Ngoc Quang Minh of Children?s Hospital No.1 said that it has never experienced such a ?sudden? increase in patients for more than ten years.
The hospital, which has 1,400 beds, is having 2,100 inpatients on a daily basis, far from the highest number of around 1,700 of the past ten years.
It received around 2,500 children coming for examinations every day in early September, but the number has risen to 6,500...
Severe bed shortage sends Saigon child patients to hospital hallway
By Vien An, Thanh Nien News
HO CHI MINH CITY - Tuesday, October 06, 2015 19:05
Children patients in Ho Chi Minh are not just sharing beds.
They are sleeping under the beds, in the hallway or just wherever their parents can find enough space for a hammock or a small mattress.
The outbreaks of multiple diseases are resulting in the biggest crowds of the decade in many pediatric hospitals in the city.
Children?s Hospital No.1 and No.2, the leading ones in the city, have received a heavy flow of patients since the beginning of October.
The latter is having more than 7,000 children brought in for examinations every day and more than 2,000 inpatients.
Doctor Ngo Ngoc Quang Minh of Children?s Hospital No.1 said that it has never experienced such a ?sudden? increase in patients for more than ten years.
The hospital, which has 1,400 beds, is having 2,100 inpatients on a daily basis, far from the highest number of around 1,700 of the past ten years.
It received around 2,500 children coming for examinations every day in early September, but the number has risen to 6,500...