Emergency care: inside a Chinese hospital for coronavirus infected, built in just 9 days

In connection with the epidemic of the coronavirus 2019-nCoV, the Chinese in an emergency mode built in There are two new hospitals in Wuhan. The first medical center, which took only 9 days to build and equip, is already ready to receive 1,000 patients. The second hospital with 1,600 beds will be ready by Wednesday, February 5.

Look further at what the new Hoshenshan clinic looks like, built in the very epicenter of the emergence of a new infection, which is now being trumpeted by the whole world.

The construction of a Chinese hospital in an emergency situation has been completed. It will be able to receive 1,000 patients infected with coronavirus.

The Hoshenshan Clinic, which translates as "The Mountain of the God of Fire", was built in just 9 days. The work continued both day and night. The area of the hospital is 25 thousand sq. m.

1,400 military medics will treat patients at the Hoshenshan Express Hospital. As of today, she can already receive patients. This is the first of two temporary hospitals that are being urgently built in the 11-million-strong Wuhan.

The design of the buildings is based on the example of the Beijing hospital, built in 2003 during the SARS epidemic, which spread to more than 20 countries, and the number of infected exceeded 8,000. Then 4,000 construction workers worked day and night, completing the hospital in just 7 days.

Engineers from all over the country gathered to speed up the process of building temporary medical facilities.

Like the hospital in In Beijing, the center in Wuhan is made of prefabricated structures. It is reported that their specialists to work in Wuhan sent Military Medical Institutes of the Ground Forces, Air Force, Navy, combined logistics forces, also to Wuhan sent 15 experts from the PLA Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Military Medical Research Institute at the Academy of Military Sciences of the PLA.The 11-million-strong metropolis of Wuhan in Hubei Province has been quarantined for more than a week after one of the city's meat markets became the source of the spread of the deadly virus in December.

The emergency construction of medical facilities was caused by a huge number of patients who are lining up in long queues to be examined by doctors.

The opening of two additional centers will facilitate the work of doctors and paramedics in overcrowded hospitals in China. The panic in the country continues to grow.

The Chinese military arrived in Wuhan to help doctors, but medical staff complain that there are still not enough forces, and patients continue to stand in line waiting for treatment.According to the Chinese health authorities, 304 people have already died from the coronavirus, and 14,000 people in the country and abroad are infected. 130 cases have been reported in other countries. The first coronavirus death outside of China has been reported in the Philippines.

The panic in the world society due to the rapid spread of a deadly disease reaches a critical level. Desperate passengers at airports put everything on their heads — from plastic bottles to helmets — to protect themselves from the coronavirus.