China News Service, Hong Kong, January 20 (Reporter Liu Chenyao) With the support of the central government, the construction of the temporary hospital next to the AsiaWorld-Expo has been successfully completed. It is now called "North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Center".
The Chief Executive of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Carrie Lam presided over the project completion and handover ceremony on the 20th.
On the same day, Carrie Lam was accompanied by the Director of the Development Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Wong Wai Lun, the Director of the Food and Health Bureau Professor Chen Zhaoshi, the Permanent Secretary of the Development Bureau (Works) Lin Shixiong, the Chairman of the Hospital Authority Fan Hongling, and the Director of Architectural Services He Yongxian, together with Guangdong Province Governor Ma Xingrui, Secretary of Shenzhen Municipal Party Committee Wang Weizhong, Deputy Director of the Hong Kong and Macau Affairs Office of the State Council Huang Liuquan and Chairman of China State Construction International Group Yan Jianguo hosted the unveiling ceremony for the project.
It is understood that the temporary hospital includes six ward buildings and a medical center. It has a negative air pressure ward designed with reference to the standards of a first-line isolation ward. It can accommodate about 820 beds. The Hospital Authority strives to put the temporary hospital into service in February this year. .
Together with the addition of community treatment facilities completed in early October last year, the central government has added about 1,800 hospital beds for Hong Kong's response to the COVID-19 epidemic, greatly strengthening the anti-epidemic capabilities of the Hong Kong medical system.
In her speech, Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor said that the project once again conveyed the central government’s support for the anti-epidemic work of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government and its care for Hong Kong citizens. The united efforts of the employees work together.
"Whether it is materials, nucleic acid testing, vaccines, and even the temporary hospital completed today, they all reflect the central government’s care for the SAR. It also shows once again that the central government will always be the strongest backing for the SAR. I sincerely thank the Central Government, the Guangdong Provincial Government, The support and guidance of the Shenzhen Municipal Government and Wuhan experts; thank you Shenzhen Municipal Government, various departments and teams for helping to implement this temporary hospital. Your hard work and hard work have laid a strong shot for Hong Kong's response to the epidemic." Said that the construction of the temporary hospital adopted the latest assembly and composite construction technology and was completed in just four months. While accelerating the progress and improving the quality, the project has also reached extremely high standards in terms of safety, which is a future medical facility in Hong Kong. The construction provided a very valuable experience.
She also pointed out that since the new wave of epidemics that appeared in November last year, although the number of confirmed patients in hospital has dropped to more than 600, the challenge of epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic work is still arduous. The SAR government and the Hospital Authority will not take it lightly; the government now Vaccine approval is being actively carried out, and a large-scale vaccination plan is being prepared so that the public will be vaccinated as soon as possible after the vaccine arrives in Hong Kong. (Finish)