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Orchestrating Layout to Minimise
Risk
12 Oct 2020: Tents at
Queen E Hospital, Sabah
The Sabah State Director
responds to viralled fake
news on the social media
of medical tents set up
due to lack of beds in the
hospital's ICU wards.
The strategy: preventing
COVID-19 spread to other
patients receiving
treatment at the hospital
or healthcare workers who
share the same space. §
PUI Tent This
is designated for patients
with history of contact
with COVID-19 patients.
They can be isolated and
Source: PKN Sabah Facebook §
given initial treatment
before admission to a
Special Isolation Ward.
SARI Tent This tent has
medical facilities to treat
critical patients who are
later moved to the
appropriate wards. §
Source: Bernama Facebook §
