![Doctor Nguyen Trung Cap - veteran warrior against corona 1 Doctor Nguyen Trung Cap - veteran warrior against corona 4](https://nucuoixinh.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/nucuoixinh.com-doctor-nguyen-trung-cap-veteran-warrior-against-corona-1.jpg)
Doctor Nguyen Trung Cap - veteran warrior against corona 4
Doctor Nguyen Trung Cap is Head of the Emergency Department, Central Tropical Diseases Hospital, one of the main facilities treating Covid-19 patients.
`Preparing to respond to the corona epidemic, I told my wife to prepare clothes to bring to the hospital, eat and sleep there, it’s been more than two weeks now,` Dr. Cap said.
The nights he slept on the couch were cold and his back ached, his eyes were dark.
As the head of the emergency department at a frontline hospital, where nCoV positive patients are quarantined and treated, the pressure is heavy on the shoulders of doctors.
Doctor Nguyen Trung Cap, Head of Emergency Department, Central Tropical Diseases Hospital.
Prepare to cope
When China announced the new epidemic in Wuhan in mid-December, doctor Cap and his colleagues immediately met to come up with a plan to fight the epidemic.
He tried to arrange for the fewest people to go to the innermost line, avoiding doctors and nurses with underlying or chronic illnesses.
Thanks to that preparation, when the hospital received the first patients with an epidemiological history who had to be quarantined, until nCoV-positive patients, `everything was not chaotic,` he said.
At the same time as preparing for quarantine conditions, doctor Cap went looking for pathogen research documents.
Treatment regimen
Nearly three weeks, the Central Tropical Diseases Hospital received a total of 5 patients positive for the corona virus, quarantined and treated.
Vietnam’s treatment regimen comes from Chinese research as well as doctors’ experiences gathered over many years and is regularly updated.
nCoV positive patients in Vietnam are mainly treated with medication and symptomatic treatment.
`What is more worrying is the patient’s spirit,` Doctor Cap confided.
In the isolation ward, he and the nurses regularly care for patients by chatting over the phone.
In principle, when a patient is free of the virus, it means the body is no longer at risk of spreading the pathogen, so there will be no more infection in the community.
Experience from the SARS epidemic
`The experiences left behind from the SARS epidemic are still valuable,` he said.
`We just realized that being in a closed, air-conditioned room makes the virus spread faster. That is a valuable lesson until now.`
In addition to patient care and treatment, hospitals must ensure maximum safety for medical staff.
`Information sharing is also better now,` he said.
I don’t consider my profession dangerous
Witnessing the happy moment when all five coronavirus-positive patients treated at his hospital were discharged one by one, Dr. Cap could not hide the `excitement in his heart`.
He believes that to fight danger, it is best to learn to understand the danger.
Facing contagious and potentially deadly dangers every day, Doctor Cap shows a calm attitude.