China geared up to build the hospital as quickly as possible after medical experts in the city described overcrowded hospitals and shortage of test kits and face masks.
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Construction workers also worked throughout the Lunar New Year holiday, MailOnline reported last week, citing state media.
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The building's design was based on the Xiaotangshan Hospital in Beijing, which was built in 2003 to fight the SARS epidemic at the time.
That hospital ended up treating one-seventh of the country's total number of SARS infections, state media said.
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Some of them already have experience fighting other outbreaks, including SARS, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.
All of them are required to wear protective suits, the state-run CGTN news network reported.
Workers were able to construct a water supply system for the bathrooms in just seven days, CGTN reported.
Zhong Nanshan, a leading Chinese epidemiologist who played a major role during the SARS epidemic, told state broadcaster CCTV that the extra beds would massively help the outbreak because sick patients can now stay in hospital rather than be sent home, according to Sky News.
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This is likely to prevent medics from contracting the virus, which spreads from human to human.
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The video system links doctors in Wuhan to Beijing's People's Liberation Army General Hospital, the AP cited the Yangtze Daily as saying.
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The second facility is called the Leishenshan Hospital. Construction of that facility began on January 27, and is due to open on February 5.
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