Tag: makeshift hospitals

China Wastes Billions Building Makeshift Hospitals Nationwide, Most Abandoned or Unfinished

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 three years ago, Beijing has ordered the construction of countless makeshift hospitals nationwide, some costing as much as 10,000 yuan (about $1,500) per square meter. Those facilities were primarily used to quarantine mild to asymptomatic COVID-positive patients. However, when Beijing abruptly ended its Zero-COVID policy last December, makeshift hospitals nationwide…


Makeshift Hospitals in China’s Guixi City Are Like ‘Concentration Camps’: Patient

The beds are close to each other with no partition to separate them. A number is written on the bed rail instead of the name of the patient. Men and women, young and old, live together in a crammed space. Some patients don’t have a bed; they lie on the floor. Lights remain on even…


Chaotic Scenes in Shanghai Temporary Hospital Amid COVID-19 Outbreak

A mad scramble for supplies emerged in a Shanghai makeshift hospital as the country’s biggest city cobbles together quarantine centers to house its latest surge of COVID-19 patients. Shanghai is under an extended, phased, lockdown to curb an Omicron variant outbreak, with a record 13,000 plus new infections reported on April 4. A municipal official…