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Cho Ray Medical Facility
Cameron, the last Covid-19 patient in an intensive care system in Vietnam, has been the sickest medical professionals have actually had to deal with throughout the outbreak.
‘10%chance of survival’
Dozens of Vietnam’s intensive care professionals held regular conference calls to talk about Cameron’s condition.
” The really small number of crucial care clients indicated anybody who was severely ill got the attention of all the country’s top-level clinicians,” describes Dr Kidong Park, the World Health Company (WHO) representative to Vietnam.
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Medical professionals from health centers throughout Vietnam talking about Client 91’s condition.
” When it came out in journalism here that I needed a lung transplant, obviously loads of people provided their lungs, including a 70- year-old Vietnam war veteran,” he smiles. “But it would have been a double lung transplant so that wouldn’t have ended well for him.”
Despite the outpouring of assistance from the Vietnamese individuals and the numerous thousands of dollars spent on Stephen Cameron’s care, the reaction when he initially checked favorable for the infection was less welcoming.
The Buddha Bar cluster
Cameron ended up being ill just a few weeks after showing up in Vietnam in early February. Like many Western pilots, he ‘d headed to Asia to ply his trade for greater pay in the thriving local air travel industry. Two nights prior to he was due to pilot his very first flight for Vietnam Airlines, and the night prior to the majority of bars and clubs were set to shut in Ho Chi Minh City to contain the virus, he headed to fulfill a pal in an expat bar in an upmarket district of the city.
At the time, Vietnam had had less than 50 confirmed cases however, accor