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Chinese employees work at the construction site of the Huoshenshan hospital, which means "Fire God Mountain", before handed over to China's army in Wuhan in China's central Hubei province on February 2, 2020. China's army on February 2 was given control of a nearly-finished field hospital that will treat patients at the epicentre of a deadly virus epidemic that has severely strained medical facilities. — Picture by AFP[/caption]
WUHAN, Feb 3 — China has built a makeshift hospital in 10 days to battle against the novel strain of coronavirus in Wuhan, the epicentre of the virus outbreak in central China's Hubei Province, reported Xinhua news agency.
Huoshenshan (Fire God Mountain) Hospital was delivered Sunday in Wuhan. It is dedicated to treating patients infected with the virus.
A total of 1,400 medical staff from the armed forces are tasked with treating patients in Huoshenshan Hospital starting from Monday. The medics consist of 950 people from hospitals affiliated to the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Joint Logistic Support Force, and 450 from medical universities of the army, navy and air force of the PLA who were sent to Wuhan earlier.
Replicating Beijing's SARS treatment model in 2003, Wuhan started building two makeshift hospitals: Leishenshan (Thunder God Mountain) and Huoshenshan.
On January 23, workers broke ground on Huoshenshan Hospital, with a capacity of 1,000 beds.
— Bernama
