Lessons from China’s temporary hospitals

The temporary hospitals are 10 times less expensive than building a new comprehensive COVID-19 care hospital


China’s health officials followed a specific process to establish more than a dozen temporary hospitals in preexisting nonmedical buildings, according to an article on the Health Leaders website.

The temporary hospitals are 10 times less expensive than building a new comprehensive COVID-19 care hospital. The first step is ensuring that the arena could be renovated to comply with international infection control and treatment standards.

With a temporary hospital's staff is drawn from several sources, standard procedures and policies are necessary, including medical waste disposal procedures, infection control and supply chain.  

When the temporary hospital opened, infectious disease experts provided infection control and prevention training as well as guidance on how to use personal protective equipment. The infectious disease experts also provided training for three levels of infection control procedures.

Read the article.



April 6, 2020


Topic Area: Infection Control


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