I live in Vietnam. They do not have anywhere near the capacity needed to deal with ventilating. In HCM with a population of 9 million the largest hospital, Cho Ray, has 1000 beds ready but only 200 intensive, and 20 ventilators. Even fewer ECMO kits. Its one of the best equipped hospitals in the country.
If things get bad, thousands will be sent home, thousands will die.
Currently we are working on ways to repurpose industrial bottles and work with local gas and liquid oxygen manufacturers to come up with stop gap solutions to get oxygen to several thousand people at once, across the whole city, using existing propane gas distribution systems and grab app for monitoring and delivery.
This is our ONLY option.
For those pointing out how dangerous homemade ventilators and oxy kits can be, assume that WE KNOW that already, and that we wouldnt be looking at this unless it looked like there being no other option.
We have under 700 large hospitals, but over 35,000 local clinics, many of which are run by local doctors with training and their own oxygen gear.
We dont need them to be perfect, we dont need them to last forever, we just need them to work. If they save more than they harm, when people without them would die anyway, thats a meaningful impact.
And yes, Viet doctors and government will use WHATEVER they need to get sh*t done and save lives.