Site of temporary Hong Kong Covid hospital to be used for AsiaWorld-Expo expansion
- Prefabricated isolation wards and equipment from North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre will be used elsewhere, government says
The government on Friday pledged to use the prefabricated isolation wards and equipment from the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre elsewhere as the site in Tung Chung would be released to the Airport Authority.
“The medical equipment, ancillary equipment, furniture and consumables in the hospital will be allocated to the public hospitals,” the government said.
“The electrical and mechanical equipment and modular units of isolation wards will be relocated for reuse to facilitate the construction works of the AsiaWorld-Expo Phase 2 project scheduled for the first quarter of next year.”
The Tung Chung site will be the eighth Covid-19 treatment or isolation centre to be converted into non-healthcare use following the end of the pandemic.
Some of the others have been converted into dormitories for foreign labour or as a national education base.
