Published on: Tuesday, July 27, 2021
By: Bernama
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LABUAN: With the positive turnaround in the Covid-19 situation here, the one-month old Covid-19 Labuan Field Hospital is ceasing operations and is in the process of being dismantled.
Labuan Disaster Management Committee chairman Rithuan Ismail
(pic) said its medical equipment and inflatable tents were being removed and that all these facilities, which belong to the Ministry of Defence (MinDef) and Mercy Malaysia, would be relocated to the peninsula for the purpose of handling the increasing cases there.
“We must be thankful to the MinDef and Mercy Malaysia for helping us in the setting up of the Covid-19 field hospital here…the dismantling of the medical equipment and tents will be completed today, some medical equipment like X-ray machines (belonging to the Labuan Hospital) will remain in the premises,” he told Bernama.