KUALA LUMPUR – The occupancy of Selangor hospital beds is now at 81% for Covid-19 patients while 58% of beds at the state’s low-risk and quarantine treatment centres (PKRCs) are taken up, said the health director-general.
Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah today said the National Leprosy Control Centre (NLCC) in Sg Buloh Hospital, used for Covid-19 quarantine, has 543 patients – 84% of its total capacity of 645 beds.
He added that the Health Ministry Training Institute in Sg Buloh, which has a capacity of 2,700 beds, is now occupied by 1,918 patients and is at 71% capacity.
The occupancy of the PKRC in Serdang's Malaysia Agro Exposition Park is at 3,333 from a total of 6,640 beds.
“We still have the capacity (to quarantine patients), but the delay (in bringing them to quarantine) is actually due to the transfer of patients to the hospitals (or PKRCs),” he said during his public briefing today.
“We advise those who are positive to remain at home and confine themselves and wait until our district or state hospitals come to fetch them.”
Noor Hisham said Kuala Lumpur Hospital is at 52% capacity with 339 of its 648 beds occupied, while the rehabilitation hospital in Cheras has 230 unutilised beds.
“So our capacity (to quarantine patients) is still there.”
He said the nation has 120 Covid-19 screening hospitals, 50 treatment hospitals, 63 testing labs able to do up to 59,555 tests daily, while Malaysia has procured one million rapid testing kits.
In total, there are 6,055 beds in hospitals and 22,145 beds in PKRCs, 474 beds for intensive care and 1,581 ventilators.
As of today, Malaysia has a total of 20,643 active cases, 116 under intensive care and 53 needing ventilators. – The Vibes, December 28, 2020
