Wuhan to build 1,300-bed hospital within 10 days to battle coronavirus
Beijing, January 25
A central Chinese city that is the epicenter of a new SARS-like virus outbreak is building a second hospital “within half a month” to treat cases, state media reported Saturday.
According to the People’s Daily, the new hospital will add 1,300 hospital beds, in addition to another new facility which is being built in Wuhan to deal with the outbreak—reportedly within 10 days.
The Wuhan government is rushing to build a 1,000-bedded hospital in the outskirts of Wuhan to treat coronavirus patients.
It will be ready by February 3, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Workers are being paid 1,200 Yuan (USD 173) per day, three times their usual wage, to accelerate the construction.
The hospital will be modelled on the one built in Beijing for the treatment and control of SARS or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which spread rapidly on the Chinese mainland in 2003, killing over 800 people.
Beijing then had built the Xiaotangshan Hospital, a temporary medical centre in the northern suburb of the city. — AFP
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