The 59 Myanmar students brought back from Wuhan were in good health on the third day of their 14-day quarantine yesterday at the Kandawnadi Hospital in Mandalay, according to Deputy director Dr Khin Kyaw, Medical Superintendent of the Mandalay General Hospital, who is currently responsible for monitoring the students’ health. “A total of 59 people were evacuated from Wuhan – 16 male students, 42 female students, and a three-year-old girl. They all are well on the third day of quarantine, with no fever and no respiratory symptoms,” said Dr Khin Kyaw.
The condition of the three health workers who took part in the mission to bring the students back is also being monitored, and they are also in good health, he added. “Quarantine does not mean that they have been infected with the coronavirus. It is being imposed to prevent the possibility of an infection,” he added. The students will received quarantine care from a medical team led by the medical superintendent of the Mandalay General Hospital.
The team comprises four doctors, eight nurses, and eight general health workers.
“They (the students) have showed no symptoms of the coronavirus infection yet. If one of them shows symptoms such as fever with high temperature, the patient will be checked by a physician who also participated in the mission to bring them back from Wuhan to Myanmar,” said Dr. Khin Kyaw. “I would like to tell the people of Mandalay not to be very anxious about the disease.
Too much anxiety can cause panic among people,” he added. Quarantine rooms have been arranged at the Mandalay General Hospital, a 550-bed hospital, and a 300- bed teaching hospital and the Central Women’s Hospital in Mandalay to provide medical care to suspected patients.— Min Htet Aung (Mandalay Sub-Printing House)
(Translated by Kyaw Zin Tun)
