Sharjah Opens New Covid-19 Field Hospital

Publish date: Monday، 29 March 2021

With COVID-19 spreading, it is important to contain it as much as possible. Through the right healthcare, the UAE was able to boot it's efforts to combat Covid as it has been doing since the fight began in early 2020.

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Therefore, in light of the pandemic and providing the appropriate healthcare patients need with outmost comfort, Sharjah opens a new Covid-19 field hospital with over 200 nurses and doctors.

This new facility which is a part of a wider national plan, has 204 beds, including 48 for intensive care.

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Shaikh Salem Bin Abdul Rahman Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Sharjah Ruler’s Office, inaugurated the Mohammad Bin Zayed Field Hospital in Sharjah.

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The facility was completed within 10 days across an area of 7,000 square meters. It includes 204 beds, of which 48 are designated for intensive care and 156 for moderate to severe cases. Services at the hospital are provided by 75 doctors, 231 nurses and 44 technicians and assistant health personnel.

A total of seven such institutions are expected to be operational in the next phase of the country’s fight against the pandemic, the National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA) had announced last month.

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