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Workers putting up the awning for the enclosed partition outside the Emergency and Trauma Unit at Bukit Mertajam Hospital. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

BUKIT Mertajam Hospital will have an enclosed structure built adjacent to its Emergency and Trauma Unit to accommodate an additional 32 beds for the influx of Covid-19 patients.

Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim Chee Keong said the extra beds would be an addition to the 16 beds available there at present.

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