Vietnamese doctors save a U.N. staff suffering from cerebral stroke

The South Sudanese patient, aged 50, was hospitalized with the assistance of his U.N. colleagues in a state of paralysis on the right side of the body, sound mind, able to speak and answer, and high blood pressure of 197/113 mmHg.

The patient is transported to the hospital.

At the hospital, Doctor Dang Long Trieu, Head of the Outpatient Department, and the hospital’s Deputy Director Tran Dang Khoa controlled blood pressure of the patient and performed necessary paraclinical tests. After getting the ultrasound scan result, the Vietnamese doctors gave the patient treatment according to the standard protocol of cerebral stroke.

The patient was then transported to a level 3 field hospital in Kampala, capital of Uganda in a special nearly one-hour medical evacuation flight by the Vietnamese field hospital’s AMET staff, including doctor Dinh Van Hong, nurse Tran Van Tuan and another nurse.

The aero-medevac for the troubled U.N. staff was agreed by the UNMISS’s Chief Medical Officer.

Doctors of the L2FH Rotation 3 take care of the patient.

It was the third cerebral stroke case that the Vietnamese field hospital has given diagnosis and timely treatment to over the past one year of undertaking mission in UNMISS. This was also the second case that the hospital has effectively applied a special ultrasound method in support of diagnosing, treating, and making prognosis on acute cerebral stroke in field conditions with rudimentary medical equipment and without CT scanner or MRI.

Reported by Mai Lien and Nguyen Loan from Bentiu, South Sudan

Translated by Mai Huong