A shelter hospital is built around a residential school in Chengdu, Sichuan. Where do you think the shelter hospital is most suitable?

Covid-19 is highly contagious. As a designated institution for the treatment of confirmed patients, Fangcang Hospital will naturally be regarded as a threat, which is true in theory. During the whole operation process, any careless link may cause secondary infection. Therefore, the construction of Fangcang Hospital should try to avoid residential buildings and other places with large traffic, while the school is a place with extremely fragile defense lines in the face of the epidemic, and the surrounding environment is naturally not suitable for the construction of Fangcang Hospital. Relatively empty areas such as urban-rural fringe and industrial parks, as the location direction of shelter hospitals, are not only more easily recognized by citizens, but also have relatively low construction costs. At present, many cities use this as a standard for the location and construction of shelter hospitals.

The shelter hospital is built around residential buildings and schools. Even if a perfect and standardized hospital awareness mechanism is established during the operation of the hospital, there is no guarantee that there will be no potential safety hazards in the surrounding environment. Medical waste and domestic garbage may become the ways for the surrounding environment to be polluted by viruses. If the shelter hospital is built in the urban-rural fringe, these external factors that lead to secondary pollution and increase the infection rate will be completely stifled, and citizens will naturally not come forward to obstruct it. After all, it is hard to avoid public fear in the face of the epidemic.

The reason why industrial parks are regarded as an ideal choice for building shelter hospitals is that some cities have relatively large industrial parks, and there are many empty workshops in the parks that have stopped production. The temporary requisition for building shelter hospitals can be completely disinfected and returned to the parks after the epidemic is over. This can not only avoid infection but also reduce costs, which is worth trying for many cities. Of course, if it is a long-term shelter hospital, this idea needs to be adjusted, and shelter hospitals can be built in other types of buildings that meet the requirements as required.

Obviously, the citizens are more averse to building a shelter hospital in the surrounding environment. After all, this is not only related to their own health, but also will cause many uncertainties to the normal operation of the city. Since the public is so concerned about the choice of shelter hospitals, the open environment in the urban-rural fringe has become the first choice for the construction of shelter hospitals in various places, which is of great help to speed up the construction progress and avoid unnecessary disputes.