Ready to take up the fight

Ready to go: Noor Hisham visiting Tuanku Mizan Armed Forces Hospital’s DMZ.

PETALING JAYA: With a capacity to treat 150 Covid-19 patients, the disaster management zone (DMZ) located in the underground parking lot of the Tuanku Mizan Armed Forces Hospital will begin admitting patients starting today.

Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the DMZ was capable of accommodating 100 Category 3 patients as well as 50 Category 4 patients, and should they need respiratory assistance, they could be transferred to the Tuanku Mizan Armed Forces Hospital’s intensive care unit ward.