Tags: Covid 19

Responding to an appeal made by the Danang People’s Committee to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the DTU Faculty of Medicine called for volunteers on their Faculty website. From March 18, hundreds of DTU students assisted frontline healthcare workers and the police at checkpoints in Danang to fight and prevent the Covid-19 outbreak, at the southern gateway of the Hai Van Tunnel in Lien Chieu, and at the Cong Doan Hotel on Ong Ich Khiem street...

The whole world has been stunned by the pandemic that struck so suddenly, leaving no time to protect ourselves. What’s more, we don’t know how the disaster evolved. It started in Wuhan, China, and spread rapidly in just two months to the whole world. Today, 3 million have contracted the disease and more than 200,000 lives have been lost. Covid-19 is sowing extreme confusion as even the strongest powers...

With the whole world going through the biggest global crisis since the Second World War, socioeconomic effects are increasing exponentially everywhere, with no sign of remission. The joint top priority is to kill the virus, however, the initial reaction has been to ensure survival, whereas longer-term socioeconomic development policies must then be implemented to ensure life goes on successfully...

There is no longer a need to discuss the impact of Covid-19, its influence is all too clear. In addition to the immeasurable losses however, the pandemic is also bringing us major new revelations, making us all aware of the latent humanistic values which, up to now, were hidden behind ingrained habits, the temptations of life and our doubts...

Due to staff shortages during the ongoing pandemic, medical, pharmacy and nursing students volunteered to step in and, on July 9th, sixty DTU Health Science students were chosen to assist at the Lien Chieu Health Center, where they helped the locals to complete medical declarations and procedures prior to vaccination.