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Tien Son field hospital in Danang Photo: VNExpress.

Tien Son field hospital was set up at Tien Son Stadium in Hai Chau District in early August when a Covid-19 outbreak was detected in Danang. It has 500 beds and hundreds of doctors and nurses, Dan Tri reported.

Tran Thanh Thuy, deputy director of Danang Department of Health, acted as the hospital’s director, and Do Ngoc Son from Hanoi’s Bach Mai Hospital acted as the deputy director. However, the hospital has never had to receive any COVID-19 patients as the outbreak was controlled very quickly in Danang and no community cases have been detected since.

Tien Son field hospital in Danang Photo: VNExpress.

The directors of the Department of Health, Department of Construction, Department of Internal Affairs, Department of Finance, and Department of Natural Resources and Environment will deal with remaining issues and given tasks as the hospital closes.

Previously, on October 2, the Hoa Vang field hospital for Covid-19 patients was also shut down, Vietnam New Agency reported. Patient 936 (L) waving goodbye to a medical worker of the Hoa Vang Field Hospital for Covid-19 patients on September 23 after recovering from Covid-19 Photo: VNA Located within the Hoa Vang District Medical Centre, the field hospital has treated a total of 239 patients, with the last discharged on September 23 since Da Nang became the pandemic epicenter of the second Covid-19 outbreak, which began on July 25.

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