Tuoi Tre documentary on night shift of Vietnamese doctors in emergency room
Friday, November 13, 2015, 14:06 GMT+7
Tuoi Tre News introduces a documentary offering a close look into how Vietnamese doctors work at a night shift in the emergency room.
The night shift for doctors in the emergency department of Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City starts at 9:00 pm.
In the department which is considered the most stressful place at the hospital, doctors work around the clock to save people's lives.
Tonight’s shift has nine doctors, 22 nurses and two interns on duty. They are under pressure to provide urgent treatment for a large number of patients, around a hundred, particularly at midnight.
None of the staff seem to have time to give themselves a break.
Many patients are hospitalized with critical injuries.
Some are even brain dead when they arrive at the emergency room and doctors can only implement temporary first aid on these patients and wait for their relatives to carry them home.
Apart from suffering stress due to the pressure of the job, doctors of the emergency department have also faced other pressure from patients and their relatives.
During a night in the emergency room, despite the tiredness, the doctors and nurses always devote themselves to their patients.
More admirably, many of them are very young.
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