The Punjab government has decided to set up field hospitals at various parks across the province to treat patients who have been infected with COVID-19.
Asif Mehmood, the chairperson of the Parks and Horticulture Authority, said that these field hospitals will serve as quarantine centres when the burden on hospitals increases.
He said he has issued directions to administrations of different cities to follow these orders.
In Rawalpindi, Hilal-e-Ahmar has set up a 200-bed field hospital in a park.
“These hospital will be used for treating the coronavirus,” Hilal-e-Ahmar chairperson Abrarul Haq said, adding that the hospital has ICU beds and ventilators.
The United States of America has also done this when its cases were increased and almost 1,000 New Yorkers were killed by the virus.
Emergency field hospitals were readied in New York’s Central Park and at the home of the US Open tennis tournament when the US death toll from the coronavirus surpassed that of China.
