SERDANG (Bernama): The Covid-19 Integrated Quarantine and Treatment Centre (PKRC) 2.0 at the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS) is prepared to open more halls to accommodate the increasing number of patients, especially from the Klang Valley.
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Not only are military-built hospitals being deployed, ‘field ICUs’ are set to be rolled out in Penang, Malaysia. NOOR HISHAM ABDULLAH VIA FACEBOOK
Malaysia turns to field ICUs, containers and parking lots to cope with Covid-19 overflow
Tue, 18 May 2021
Unorthodox measures are being rolled out as Malaysia’s healthcare system is stretched thin, not just by the rising number of Covid-19 cases, but also from the severity of the infections, with more critically ill patients in intensive care units (ICU).
Not only are military-built hospitals being deployed, “field ICUs” are set to be rolled out in Penang, where critical care capacity has breached 100 per cent, while the surge in deaths has forced Sungai Buloh Hospital, the Klang Valley’s main coronavirus treatment facility, to use a shipping container as a makeshift morgue.
Coronavirus: Malaysia Converts Shipping Container to Morgue
18 May 2021
Malaysia’s health ministry converted a shipping container into a makeshift morgue on Sunday in the western state of Selangor as proper morgues have reached capacity in the state amid a recent surge in new Chinese coronavirus infections and deaths.
“The first container was set up at the Sungai Buloh Hospital in Selangor, and can fit up to 16 bodies,” local news outlet Coconuts Kuala Lumpur reported on May 16.
The Malaysian Health Ministry posted photos of the shipping container-turned-morgue to its official Facebook page on Sunday. The ministry did not indicate if it would need to use more shipping containers to temporarily store coronavirus victims before their burial or cremation.
KUALA LUMPUR: The Forensic Department of Sungai Buloh Hospital is providing a special container as an additional place to keep the bodies of dead COVI.