XIAOTANGSHAN: Six days and six nights. That's all the time construction crews had to erect a 1,000-bed SARS isolation hospital on a field in the tiny Chinese township of Xiaotangshan, an hour north-east of Beijing.
“We were given the order on the night of April 24 and told the patients would move in on April 30,” said an official.
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