0900 left for Tu Do Hospital (speciality womens hospital for high risk cases). 1200 beds, 100 C/sections a day in 20 theatres.
Started the morning in infection control were 40 staff looked after the sterilization of all the theatre equipment.
In CSSD 35 staff working 24 hours a day.
Visited the 20 theatres and then entered the ICU/Recovery unit. 130 patients passed through recovery on a daily basis. 16 nurses were on the floor, and the patients were from all provinces of Vietnam.
Teresa and I had a lot of questions about the patient care, and how the unit was managed at such a fast moving pace.
Went to lunch down the road with the Director of Infection control, the NUM of CSSD, staff of Infection control and a midwife.
We ate prawn cracker holding shells with coconut pork/prawn salad. Seafood salad, chicken and very very yummy sticky rice.
The waiter brought in a live cat fish still moving in a fishing net to show us. Heads were shaking yes and then he disappeared out the door. Twenty minutes later the waiters returned with crumbed fish and fish head soup. Our Cat fish was now cooked and served on the table. Three different greens were put into the soup, and then the catfish head was scooped out and put onto plates for eating. We had the most refreshing drink called chanh duong ( I think spelling is right), but it was soda, lemon, sugar and ice.
We returned to the hotel, and grouped together for a meeting and an AVVRG dinner at KOTO.
KOTO is a resturant that has history of a Vietnamese Australian who took street kids into schools and trained them to work in hospitality.
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