After Da Nang saw a second wave of Covid-19 infections in late July, staff of the Da Nang Emergency Centre 115 have worked harder than ever.

Staff of the Da Nang Emergency Centre 115 disinfecting an ambulance before transporting Covid-19 patients

For more than 2 weeks, the centre’s medical workers have been grappling with lost time with their family members and disruptions to their personal routines and plans.

Dr Tran Cong Thong, the Director of the Da Nang Emergency Centre 115, said his centre has now 14 ambulances and more than 90 medical workers in total.

Apart from transporting emergency patients to medical facilities as normal days, the Centre’s staff have been assigned new tasks after the city was braced for a second wave of coronavirus in late last month.

In particular, they have been in charge of transfering coronavirus patients from the Da Nang General Hospital to other dedicated medical facilities in the city for treatment in order to reduce the current patient overload at the hospital, as well as transporting those suspected of having coronavirus to healthcare facilities and quarantine sites citywide.

Dr Thong said his centre has been preparing optimal plans to cope with the pandemic. He remarked that after first community transmission cases of coronavirus was confirmed in the city in late July, the entire centre has been put on ‘red alert’.

“Despite such extra workload, all of our medical staff are always showing a high level of willingness and readiness to fullfil their assigned tasks” Dr Thong said proudly.

Director Thong said the workload of the Centre’s medical staff have increased day by day, and they are 'silent frontline heroes" in the touch fight against the deadly virus.

In addition to transporting patients infected with the virus from and to medical facilities and quarantines inside the city, the Centre’s staff have made hundreds of trips to transport covid-19 patients in critical care from Da Nang to Thua Thien Hue, Quang Nam and Quang Ngai provinces for treatment.

Over recent days, they have been active in carrying large volume red cell transfusion from Da Nang to Quang Nam Province in a bid to help this province treat Covid-19 patients.

“The wearing of such personal protective equipment as protective suits, surgical masks, face shields and gloves as being on duty, makes us feel slightly claustrophobic and uncomfortable” Mr Thong said.

But that's the job, and the Centre's staff are showing their willingness to fight Covid-19 in a bid to help eliminate the coronavirus in Da Nang.

By DAC MANH - Translated by MAI DUNG