Maria plays crucial role at MAEPS

Life-saving equipment: Medical personnel attending to a patient in Maria. The negative pressure air bubble tent is equipped to handle cases requiring oxygen as well as patients with other serious ailments, such as diabetes and heart problems. — Bernama

SERDANG: In between buildings at the Malaysian Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS) Covid-19 Quarantine and Low-Risk Treatment Centre (PKRC) Integrated 2.0 area, sits a negative pressure air bubble tent with its equipment akin to a hospital intensive care unit (ICU).

Equipped with four beds, six chairs and equipment for resuscitation as in the ICU, the MAEPS Acute Resuscitation And Isolation Area (Maria) acts as a temporary ICU.