Private hospitals ready for patients

Getting ready: A man setting up one of 1,400 beds in Hall D1 for Covid-19 patients at MAEPS in Serdang, Selangor. — AZLINA ABDULLAH/The Star

PETALING JAYA: Private hospitals have treated Covid-19 patients before, but the practice was to send them to government hospitals once beds became available there, says the Association of Private Hospitals Malaysia (APHM) president Datuk Dr Kuljit Singh.

As such, private hospitals were ready and ironing out details with the government to determine how many patients a private hospital could take and which would be able to treat the disease up to Category 5, he said.