After the terrible flash flood that occurred on July 25 in Muong Pon commune, Dien Bien district, Dien Bien province, 7 people died and went missing, people's lives were completely turned upside down. Roads were divided, hundreds of houses collapsed and were severely damaged.
On July 31, immediately after inspecting and working to ensure health and overcome environmental incidents at the place where flash floods occurred, Mr. Pham Giang Nam - Director of Dien Bien Department of Health directed the urgent establishment of The mobile medical station in Muong Pon 1 village does not allow people to go to the commune health station about 2km away, while the roads are very difficult to travel and constantly landslides.
"We went to Muong Pon commune and asked to lend 2 rooms to make a mobile medical station, but the commune could not arrange it. Luckily, a doctor and his wife working at the commune medical station lent the entire house. is living to work as a mobile medical station" - Mr. Pham Giang Nam said.
On the same afternoon, a small house of doctor Lo Van Phuc and his wife in the middle of Muong Pon 1 village became a mobile medical station with full medical facilities - a spiritual fulcrum for the people in the devastated village. after the fierce flood.
Doctor Lo Van Phuc - said that although conditions were limited, the family made the most of available items in the house such as beds, wardrobes, even cupboards... to serve their work. healthcare.
“According to the direction of the Director of the Department of Health and Dien Bien District Medical Center, my husband and I also realized that timely health care for people after flash floods is extremely urgent. Therefore, my family did not hesitate to spend our whole house to set up a mobile medical station on the same day" - said Dr. Lo Van Phuc.
The living room of Dr. Phuc's family was arranged into a clinic, the bed became a hospital bed, and the cupboard was also used to make a medicine cabinet...
Examining patients in her own home, physician Quang Thi Chung - doctor Phuc's wife - said: "As a person working in the medical field, I understand the suffering of people when they cannot reach them. medical services. When the flood subsided, my husband and I decided to do everything we could to help people."
Not only medical examination and treatment, medical staff at the mobile station also actively propagate and guide people on environmental hygiene, water source treatment and disease prevention...
As one of the first people to be examined at the mobile medical station, Ms. Quang Thi Thom - Muong Pon 2 village, Muong Pon commune, said: "I have leg pain, difficulty walking, the road down to the Medical Station Many sections of the commune were eroded. Fortunately, today there was a mobile medical station right near my house, so I went to ask a doctor to examine me."
