PUTRAJAYA – A Covid-19 Quarantine and Treatment Centre (PKRC) with a capacity of 20 beds has been opened at the Putrajaya Hospital (HPJ) and Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital (HTAR) in Klang as part of preparations to face any possible surge in Covid-19 cases.
Health Director-General Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Central Region Zone PKRC at the Malaysia Agriculture Exposition Park Serdang (MAEPS) is expected to be closed this month due to the declining number of patients.
“Some 99.5% of Covid-19 patients are in Category 1, which is asymptomatic and Category 2 or mild symptoms, while there is a drop in admission of patients in Categories 3, 4 and 5.
“So, we are still able to accept patients and make preparations,” he told the media after spending time with healthcare staff at HPJ who were on duty on the first day of Syawal, here today.
He said the PKRCs were set up by the Health Ministry in collaboration with Mercy Malaysia, which provided equipment such as tents to accommodate patients should there be an increase in cases.
MAEPS was activated as a PKRC on April 16, 2020, with the intake of Covid-19 patients only involving non-citizen patients for Categories 1 and 2 and then closed on July 15 the same year.
On December 9, 2020, the government decided to reactivate MAEPS as a PKRC following the increase in Covid-19 cases and was upgraded to PKRC MAEPS 2.0 on January 24 by accepting Categories 3 and 4 patients.
MAEPS PKRC 2.0 was officially closed on February 8 and during the 14 months of operation, a total of 166,072 Covid-19 patients were treated. – Bernama, May 2, 2022
