{"id":30129,"date":"2022-01-28T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T05:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=30129"},"modified":"2022-02-07T14:02:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T06:02:58","slug":"more-icu-beds-for-sarawak-general-hospital-incase-of-surge-in-covid-19-patients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=30129","title":{"rendered":"More ICU beds for Sarawak General Hospital incase of surge in covid 19 patients"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Deputy Chief Minister, Dato Sri Dr Sim Kui Hian expressed gladness that ten more intensive care unit (ICU) beds and another 36 ventilation points will be set up at the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) in case of a surge in Covid-19 infections.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said the hospital will be flexible should there be a need for more Covid-19 beds in the future as presently, the number of Covid-19 cases had decreased and the number of ICU beds designated for coronavirus patients had also been reduced to free up beds for other medical procedures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Sim who is also Public Health, Housing and Local Government Minister said at the height of the pandemic, there were more than 70 ICU beds for Covid-19 at the hospital but since there is only a handful of cases currently, there is no need to keep the beds idle and deprive others from using them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new ICU beds in a hybrid facility were expected to be operational in February and a total of RM1.3 million has been allocated for the installation of the ventilation points. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FB_IMG_1643260184564-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30131\" width=\"472\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FB_IMG_1643260184564-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FB_IMG_1643260184564-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FB_IMG_1643260184564-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FB_IMG_1643260184564.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 472px) 100vw, 472px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Chief Minister, Dato Sri Dr Sim Kui Hian expressed gladness that ten more intensive care unit (ICU) beds and another 36 ventilation points will be set up at the Sarawak General Hospital (SGH) in case of a surge in Covid-19 infections. He said the hospital will be flexible should there be a need for more Covid-19 beds in the future as presently, the number of Covid-19 cases had decreased and the number of ICU beds designated for coronavirus patients had also been reduced to free up beds for other<a href=\"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=30129\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30132,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30129\/revisions\/30132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}