Hong Kong third wave: city’s first makeshift Covid-19 hospital will take in younger and healthier patients
- Coronavirus patients will be separated into three groups upon arrival at the ‘mobile cabin hospital’ depending on their condition
- Officials say 14 doctors and 45 nurses will be drawn from various public hospital departments to look after the patients at AsiaWorld-Expo
Hospital chiefs on Thursday unveiled details of the facility, set up at the AsiaWorld-Expo exhibition centre near the airport, and announced that coronavirus patients between the ages of 18 and 60, except those who were in an unstable or severe condition, would be admitted there for treatment.
Ivan Hung Fan-ngai, a clinical professor of medicine at the University of Hong Kong who helped devise the scheme, said patients would be separated into three groups upon arrival at the “mobile cabin hospital”.
Asymptomatic patients with a clear lung scan who did not require oxygen support would be placed under further observation for 48 to 72 hours before transferral to Lei Yue Mun Park and Holiday Village, a community isolation facility that started operating last week, while those with symptoms such as a fever would remain at AsiaWorld-Expo.
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Those with pneumonia and in need of oxygen support would be transferred to a hospital for more intensive care and treatment.