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Singaporean-based company helps Da Nang fight COVID-19

A joint venture between the Singaporean-based Sakae Holdings and SSF Investment limited company has submitted a document offering help in the form of medical equipment and necessities to the central city of Da Nang in its COVID-19 combat.
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Da Nang (VNA) – A joint venture between theSingaporean-based Sakae Holdings and SSF Investment limited company hassubmitted a document offering help in the form of medical equipment and necessitiesto the central city of Da Nang in its COVID-19 combat.

Accordingly, the firm’s assistance package includes sevenremote body temperature monitoring devices, five Nihon Kohden patientmonitoring devices, 20 Terufusion syringe pumps, and 10 tonnes of rice for DaNang people in quarantine sites.

The proposal was sent with a document on Singapore’sexperience on fighting COVID-19 compiled by Douglas Foo, president of Khoo TeckPuat hospital, the biggest public hospital in Singapore.

Foo said the experience is quite similar to current measuresapplied in Vietnam.

He stated Vietnam is doing well in its COVID-19 preventionand control, particularly in quarantine work and tracing people visitinghigh-risk locations./.
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