A total of 516 oxygen concentrators will be placed at Hall A and C of the Malaysia Agro Exposition Park (Maeps) quarantine and treatment centre 2.0 in Serdang, Selangor where Category 3 and 4 Covid-19 patients are placed.
Maeps centre 2.0 director Dr Shahabuddin Ibrahim said this is in preparation for the patients needing more oxygen.
He said currently about 1,670 patients are being treated there, with about 1,300 in Category 3 and over 200 in Category 4.
"Our manpower is focused on patients under these two categories," he told Bernama today.
Category 3 refers to cases with pneumonia but not requiring oxygen, while Category 4 refers to those with pneumonia requiring oxygen.
Meanwhile, Selangor chief electrical engineer Haniff Ab Hamid said the wiring installation for each section would take about 10 days as the contractors faced risks while working in a hall occupied by Covid-19 patients.
He said the patients would have to be moved temporarily to other halls in stages, as the area involved had to be vacated to make way for the wiring work.
“As a safety measure, the workers involved will also be required to wear personal protective equipment while at work,” he added.
- Bernama
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