Makeshift hospitals should be deployed in adapted premises with heating, ventilation, and sanitary conditions, the official believes.
Ukraine's Deputy Health Minister, Chief Medical Officer Viktor Liashko says the ministry is preparing to deploy a makeshift hospital at the Palace of Sports in the capital city of Kyiv.
He made the comment during an interview with the Segodnya newspaper on November 2.
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According Liashko, makeshift hospitals should be deployed in adapted premises with heating, ventilation, and sanitary conditions.
"That is, these are large areas where beds are additionally installed to ensure a large block system, supply of oxygen to the beds, provide intensive care units, and rooms for medical staff," he said.
Liashko added that now there is a lack of additional equipment and beds for such large areas, but the key issue is medical staff shortages.
"At this particular moment – all this is unavailable. But we know how much equipment we need, according to the lists; we know how much equipment is on the market, how much to buy and supply. But is the medical personnel rather than the equipment. With the increasing number of beds, the problem of the number of healthcare staff will not be solved by itself, because becoming a healthcare worker takes years," he said.