Workers in protective suits clean up a makeshift hospital which converted from a sports venue after it officially closed in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province. - AP
BEIJING (Xinhua): A Chinese team has published their research on makeshift hospitals, highlighting the large-scale temporary hospital's significance in the national response to the Covid-19 outbreak as well as future epidemics and public health emergencies.
The makeshift hospitals (Fangcang in Chinese) are "large, temporary hospitals built by converting public venues, such as stadiums and exhibition centers, into health-care facilities to isolate patients with mild to moderate symptoms of an infectious disease from their families and communities, while providing medical care, disease monitoring, food, shelter and social activities," said the paper published on the journal The Lancet.
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