Image of the Week: During the SARS crisis, China built a hospital in seven days—a record at the time. Now, as coronavirus spreads, comes another rapid response.
Canadian politicians love to snipe at our “hallway healthcare,” arguing too much government-run bureaucracy slows the system down. But in China, where the state runs everything with a terrifying totalitarian grip, government officials have burned all red tape to achieve a feat of astonishing speed and questionable architecture: they’re building two prefab hospitals from scratch in just two weeks.
In Wuhan, where the virus originated, hospitals are over-packed and one doctor has died from exposure to his patients. The city’s solution? Build a couple of enormous hospitals—Huoshenshan Hospital, a sprawling 25,000 sq.-m., with 1,000 beds , and Leishenshan Hospital, 40 km away, which is even bigger.
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