Shanghai is accelerating the construction of makeshift hospitals. What is the current progress of the construction of makeshift hospitals?

The construction speed of Shanghai’s shelters is still very fast. At the press conference of the Shanghai Epidemic Prevention and Control Center on April 8, the deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Commission stated. At present, makeshift hospitals have been established in four areas of Shanghai. This is a city-level makeshift hospital with a total maximum use area of ??500,000 square meters and can provide 38,000 beds for Shanghai. Moreover, a new real estate hospital is currently under construction, covering an area of ??approximately 600,000 square meters and capable of providing 50,000 beds. This is currently the largest makeshift hospital in Shanghai.

Why are so many makeshift hospitals built? Fangcang hospitals have played a prominent role in the process of isolation and treatment. Therefore, after Wuhan adopted Fangcang hospitals at that time, they have now begun to be promoted nationwide. There are currently four makeshift hospitals that have been completed in Shanghai, namely the World Expo Exhibition Hall, Flower Expo Renaissance Hall, Lingang Yangshan Special Zone and New International Expo Center. The makeshift hospitals in these four places have basically been put into use. However, considering that larger epidemics may occur in the future, new makeshift hospitals are being built and delivered in batches.

The construction of the makeshift hospital is inseparable from the people who work silently behind the scenes. During this construction process, the second, third, and eighth bureaus in the middle were all involved in the construction work. In addition, there were many supporting construction companies. All were involved in the entire construction work and subsequent facility maintenance. A day or so before and after, about 50,000 people worked on the construction site for several days in spare time, racing against time to complete the construction of the makeshift hospital. Among them, the Fuxing Pavilion of the Flower Expo completed the construction of the entire makeshift hospital in just four days.

I hope everyone can cherish this hard-won achievement. For many cities, building makeshift hospitals actually requires a large investment of manpower and material resources. After all, construction workers need to spend a lot of manpower and material resources every day, and they also need to pay high amounts of money. Therefore, I believe that the makeshift hospitals must be used rationally after construction is completed to avoid wastage of funds.