Hospitals across Ho Chi Minh City are struggling to treat COVID-19 patients due to a severe shortage of equipment.
Projects

Why oxygen concentrators?
We spoke to many doctors and asked them what the most pressing need is in their hospitals and field hospitals right now and most identified oxygen concentrators.
One unit can treat up to 6 patients a day in the early stages of the disease by keeping their blood saturation levels up and reducing the number of patients who will need mechanical ventilation.
These units are mobile, require no systemic change in hospital infrastructure or operations, can be passed on to other facilities or areas as the need arises and are relatively affordable.
We are sourcing units that are already approved for use by the Ministry of Health and our doctors have agreed are fit for purpose.


- Target: 120,000,000 VND (EUR4,600)
- Amount raised:160,000,000 VND (EUR6,100)
- Families Supported: 400 families were given enough to support them for 3 weeks
- Ongoing Support: RCSI remains in close contact with our partner charity

Hospitals are so short of incubators for newborn babies that they are putting multiple babies in incubators designed for one baby. In a time of pandemic, the implications of this are clear.
This image shows the first incubator we supported at Hung Voung Hospital, which was in use within a couple of hours of delivery.
We have now delivered 01 Incubators to Hung Vuong and 01 to Tu Du Hospitals, with a total value of 252,000,000VND
And we raised 2 units with total value of USD 24,000 from Sunrise and AVWA
More incubators are on the way with further donations of over AUD75K due from supporters in Australia.

