Sunday, June 28th: “If I were in any other country in the world, I would probably be dead by now. Maybe they would have switched off the ventilator in 30 days”. That’s according to Stephen Cameron, a 42-year-old Scottish pilot who spent 68 consecutive days on a ventilator after being infected with Coronavirus.
This is the longest time any British patient has been on a ventilator and, interestingly, they have not spent this difficult time in a hospital in their home country, the United Kingdom. He was admitted to a hospital in a Vietnamese city. In a city where thousands of kilometers away, they had no relatives or friends.
Stephen Cameron was the last patient in the hospital’s intensive care unit in Vietnam to be infected with coronavirus. He was one of the most serious patients in the country since the beginning of the epidemic.
Vietnam has a population of about 90 million, but the number of people affected by Coronavirus is only a few thousand, while the number of deaths due to the epidemic is zero.
The number of patients who became seriously ill with coronavirus and needed to be admitted to the intensive care unit is also less than 10. In such a situation, Cameron’s case became very important and the Vietnamese media broadcast the news of his illness and the moment of recovery to the media.
Cameron is now known throughout Vietnam as “Patient No. 91” and was given the nickname when he contracted coronavirus in March. Speaking to the BBC, Cameron said he was grateful to the people of Vietnam for giving him a place in their hearts, and especially to the doctors who did not let him die.
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