An extension project is underway near the city’s No.3 People’s Hospital in Longgang District, the city’s main hospital for treating novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) patients, to accommodate additional 1,000 beds in the near term, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported.
The construction of the extension, the second phase in a project to address the virus outbreak by the No.3 People’s Hospital, was launched Jan. 29 and will occupy an area of over 60,000 square meters.
At present, a total of 1,600 beds are available in the hospital. Patients with normal diseases have been transferred elsewhere.
After the extension is completed, the hospital will have a capacity of 2,600 beds, around 300 more beds than the two makeshift hospitals built in Wuhan, namely Leishenshan Hospital and Huoshenshan Hospital, according to the report.
Over 240 doctors and more than 310 nurses are currently on duty. Additional quality medical resources are set to be dispatched to provide further assistance soon.
In order to relieve the hospital’s workload, the city set up another standalone site at the Shenzhen University General Hospital in Nanshan and the Shenzhen Hospital of Southern Medical University in Bao’an for receiving suspected patients with clinical symptoms who test negative for the novel coronavirus.
A total of 110 beds were readied in the Shenzhen Hospital of Southern Medical University within 36 hours Jan. 28 with the help of over 100 personnel.
The Seventh Hospital of Sun Yet-Sen University (Shenzhen) in Guangming District built a temporary fever clinic and observation ward, which were put into use Jan. 23.
Additionally, the construction of the temporary observation ward for fever patients is expected to be ready for operation Feb. 10 to receive suspected patients in Guangming, based on the report.
Other backup hospitals will also be prepared to deal with 2019-nCoV patients.
Hospitals across the city have launched online medical services to relieve fever clinics. More than 10,000 people reportedly visited the online hospital services developed by the Seventh Hospital of Sun Yet-Sun University (Shenzhen) within a week.