(Yicai Global) March 16 -- The ‘mobile cabin hospital’ at the Changchun International Conference & Exhibition Center was officially put into use yesterday, the same day as China’s Jilin province reported 1,139 locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, 939 of them in the provincial capital of Changchun.

This is the first ‘mobile cabin hospital’ set up in Changchun since the start of the latest Covid-19 outbreak. It will provide more than 1,500 beds for patients with mild symptoms or those who are asymptomatic. Another 700 beds will be used for quarantine.

Changchun and Jilin have finished building five mobile cabin hospitals, with one located in the former and four in the latter, Zhang Li, deputy director of the provincial health commission, said at a press conference yesterday. Seven hospital have been emptied and the province has a total of 22,880 beds for Covid-19 patients.

Local healthcare institutions have set up teams of experts to provide one-to-one treatment for critically ill and high-risk patients identified by every designated and mobile cabin hospital, especially pregnant women and patients who need kidney dialysis as well as those with tumors.

Two beds await patients in a ‘cabin’ of the mobile hospital.

A view of the ‘wards.’

A staff member puts a ‘no entry’ sign on a staircase.

Another view of the ‘wards.’

Editor: Peter Thomas