Guiyang's pop-up hospital receives COVID-19 cases

Each bed at the hospital is equipped with new bedclothes and toiletries. [Photo/ddcpc website]

In response to the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Guiyang – capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province – the city gave the green light to establish a pop-up hospital there to receive novel coronavirus cases.

The mobile hospital is located in Qingzhen – a county-level city administered by Guiyang – and by 2 pm on Sept 6, it had received 140 cases and is expected to take on more patients in the future.

The hospital has a floor area of 100,000 square meters and 3,009 beds. It is equipped with mobile nucleic acid testing cabins, an advanced CT scanner, a mobile digital radiography scanner, a mobile CT scanner, a operating room, a clinical lab and a pharmacy.

It is also equipped with Wi-Fi, set-top cable TV boxes and other entertainment equipment and has hired a property management company to ensure cleaning, security and fire management.

Working there are more than 200 medics from the Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University, the Second Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Guizhou Center for Disease Control and Prevention, the Fourth People's Hospital of Guiyang and the Second People's Hospital of Guiyang.

They are staff members experienced in tackling previous COVID-19 outbreaks in Shanghai and Hubei. They will observe the conditions of patients, collect nucleic acid samples, offer counseling and organize patients to do physical exercise.