Moscow’s new coronavirus hospital, which was built in 30 days, admitted its first 20 patients, Moscow mayor’s office said in a statement Tuesday.
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“The center itself has the capacity for 800 beds, which if necessary could be stretched to 900,” the hospital’s head Doctor Sergey Perekhodov said.
Perekhodov said, all beds can be supplied with oxygen to care for people with respiratory failure and converted into an ICU unit, if necessary.
The hospital is equipped with an on-site laboratory that can perform up to 10,000 tests a day, the mayor’s office said, adding that the facility employs 500 doctors and nurses and is looking to increase to over a thousand.
The construction of the new hospital began on March 12 as Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin vowed to increase the local health care system’s capacities and help offload other infectious diseases facilities that are trying to cope with the influx of coronavirus patients.
