He said the department was increasing the number of beds through the activation of a field hospital by the Malaysian Armed Forces and the emergency procurement of medical equipment at the Selangor Health Department level.
"Health personnel from outside of the Klang Valley are also being mobilised, medical officers, nurses and assistant medical officers,” he said in a statement uploaded on the JKNS Facebook page today. Dr Sha’ari was explaining the current status of hospitals in Selangor following viral pictures of the emergency departments at the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang and the Shah Alam Hospital.
In the meantime, he said that the hike in the admission of acute patients at the emergency department of the Shah Alam Hospital was because the hospital had now been turned into a non-Covid-19 major specialist hospital giving acute treatments to non-Covid-19 patients in the Petaling district. "For HTAR, most of the patients have been treated first at the emergency department while waiting for a bed in the wards. As such, the increase in beds had to be done outside of the HTAR emergency department temporarily. HTAR and Shah Alam Hospital are in the process of increasing the respective capacities of their beds,” he said. - Bernama
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