Wuhan in all-out efforts to cure elderly Covid-19 patients


Doctors attend an outdoor press briefing at the Leishenshan Hospital which was constructed in a parking lot from prefabricated modules in two weeks in Wuhan in central China's Hubei province,on Sunday (April 12) as the city dealt with a rush of patients in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak. The hospital closed on April 9 but still has 14 patients, mainly elderly with underlying complications. - AP

WUHAN: China's Wuhan will strengthen medical treatment for severely ill and elderly Covid-19 (coronavirus) patients, the latest signal from the city hard hit by the outbreak but now in a steady recovery.

Jiao Yahui, an official with the National Health Commission, said Son Sunday (April 12) that patients at the Huoshenshan and Leishenshan hospitals, built from scratch to help the then-overloaded local hospitals treat severely ill Covid-19 patients, will be transferred to four large hospitals in Wuhan by April 15.

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