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The China Government has started to make a makeshift hospital designed to have an area of 25,000 square meters with 1,000 beds for the treatment of patients of Corona Virus. It is expected to be completed and put into operation prior to Feb. 3. It is expected to pool medical resources to provide isolated and efficient treatment for infected pneumonia patients.
China is mobilizing medical staff to aid Wuhan, the center of the novel corona virus outbreak, as the country reported about one thousand confirmed cases of pneumonia caused by the virus and 41 deaths by the end of Friday.
As per Xinhua News Agency Ma Xin, vice president of Huashan Hospital Affiliated to the Fudan University in Shanghai, said one hour after he issued a notice of the recruiting in the hospital, three teams, each consisting of one doctor and three nurses, were set up.
An aid team consisting of 205 experienced doctors and nurses from nine hospitals in Guangdong Province has been set up and stands ready to leave for Wuhan, said Tan Linling, an official with the provincial health commission.
Doctors, nurses and experts from hospitals in other places such as Zhejiang and Sichuan have been selected or volunteered to sign up for the task. The first group of 135 medical workers from hospitals in Shanghai is scheduled to fly to Wuhan on Friday night. Shanghai will dispatch 405 medical workers in three groups to Wuhan.
China on Thursday locked down Wuhan in an unprecedented effort to curb the spread of the new infectious disease. The Wuhan headquarters for the control and treatment of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus said on Friday that Wuhan will follow Beijing’s SARS treatment model to build a special hospital for admitting patients infected in the outbreak of pneumonia caused by the novel coronavirus.
“We’ve mobilized all the workers left in Wuhan to work in shifts to ensure round-the-clock construction,” said Zhang Chongxi, general manager of the road and bridge company of Wuhan Construction. Nationwide, large-scale activities for the Lunar New Year celebrations, including temple fairs, winter sports and exhibitions, have been canceled in efforts to minimize large gatherings of people in the novel coronavirus-related pneumonia prevention and control.
