The Ministry of Health and the Da Nang Health Department on Wednesday jointly held a drill on responses to emergency cases during the APEC Economic Leaders’ Week next month.

The scene of the drill (Photo: VNA)

The exercise aimed to strengthen the Da Nang-based health sector’s management and its steering capacity and performance in dealing with emergency cases, as well as enhance its pro-activeness and coordination with other relevant units.

Health experts asked medical chiefs to be posted at revenues of APEC activities to proactively design specific plans to deal with injuries, explosions, mass poisoning incidents, and disasters.

Mr Nguyen Tan Hai, Vice Director of the municipal Health Department, said that his agency has established a total of 23 emergency teams to serve the APEC week, targeting different groups.  Of which, 17 teams will be stationed in hotels where senior officials will stay, whilst 2 others will serve business partners, 2 for the media staff, one for the organising staff and one for flight crews.

In addition, 9 standby teams in total have been set up in different health care facilities across Da Nang with full equipment, vehicles and staff meeting international standards.

(Source: VNA/ DA NANG Today)