Ho Chi Minh City opens two more water and air emergency stations

SGGPO 09/25/2023 09:00

According to the plan, a waterway emergency station will be established in Can Gio district with the coordination and support of the Ho Chi Minh City Border Guard and an air emergency station will be established in the city with the coordination and support of Military Hospital 175 .

Air ambulance at Military Hospital 175

On the morning of September 25, the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health announced that, along with projects and plans for the development of the city's health system, the Department has drafted the Project "Improving the capacity of the 115 Emergency Center in a professional manner from now until 2025 and the following years" and submitted it to the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee for consideration and approval.

According to this project, instead of only having 1 emergency center as at present, the city will develop into 3 emergency centers corresponding to 3 specialized medical clusters, which are: 115 Emergency Center - Central Cluster, 115 Emergency Center - Tan Kien Cluster and 115 Emergency Center - Thu Duc Cluster.

Of these three emergency centers, the 115 Emergency Center - Tan Kien cluster will be the command center invested in by Ho Chi Minh City to build a new one with spacious, modern infrastructure designed to suit a professional out-of-hospital emergency center. There will be a training area, practical training for out-of-hospital emergency specialists (paramedics), an area to supply supplies and specialized medical equipment for out-of-hospital emergency care...

At the recent 10th Session of the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council, the infrastructure development projects of the health sector were approved by the Ho Chi Minh City People's Council, including the project to build a new 115 Emergency Center in Tan Kien Commune, Binh Chanh District.

In addition, the remaining two emergency centers will be responsible for providing emergency care to people in the city center and Thu Duc City. In the immediate future, the Thu Duc City People's Committee has agreed and supported the opening of an additional emergency center in the Thu Duc cluster and has a plan to supplement the land use planning for the emergency center located in this cluster.

In addition, the 115 Emergency Center opened two more satellite emergency stations for waterways and airways. According to the plan, a waterway emergency station will be established in Can Gio district with the coordination and support of the Ho Chi Minh City Border Guard.

Similarly, the establishment of an air ambulance station in the city with the coordination and support of Military Hospital 175 (where a helicopter landing pad for air ambulance services is already in operation) is also completely feasible in the near future.

According to Associate Professor, Dr. Tang Chi Thuong, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Department of Health, in order for emergency services outside the hospital to be truly professional, in addition to developing the city's emergency center into 3 clusters, ordering health training schools to open major codes and soon deploying recruitment and training for specialized medical human resources (emergency specialists outside the hospital) is an urgent requirement that needs to be implemented synchronously.

In addition, the 115 Emergency Center needs to effectively implement attention and update knowledge and skills of out-of-hospital emergency care for satellite emergency stations located in public and private hospitals.

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