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Construction of new hospital for viral pneumonia patients underway in Wuhan

29 January 2020
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2020-01-29 11:49

More than 1,000 construction workers and 100 machines are working overtime to build a special hospital for the patients of novel coronavirus pneumonia. Located near the Wuhan Workers' Sanatorium in the Caidian District in the western suburb, the hospital is planned to have 1,000 beds, and expected to pool medical resources to provide isolated and efficient treatment for infected pneumonia patients.

Land-leveling work is still underway since the construction started on early Friday morning. The hospital will be put into use by Feb. 3. The hospital will follow the building model of the Hospital in Beijing to use movable plank houses so that the construction will be completed quickly. In the treatment and control of SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, that spread rapidly on the Chinese mainland in 2003, Beijing built that Hospital. The Hospital was built in seven days. The hospital admitted one-seventh of the SARS patients in the country within two months, creating a miracle in the history of medicine.

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