Georgia's field hospital receives first coronavirus patients

The need to involve a field hospital in treating patients with COVID-19 appeared yesterday, Georgia's Deputy Minister of Health Tamar Gabunia said, Report's Georgian bureau informs.

"The patients are in moderately severe condition. From today, the hospital will start working at full pace. It is a hospital in Digomi for 500 beds. The field hospital is designed mainly for temporary delays. In this case, the main thing for us is to stabilize the patient's condition on time and then send him to an in-patient department, depending on the severity of his condition. We consider that a patient should not be kept in the field hospital for more than two or three days. Then he is transferred to a COVID-hospital or another hospital," Gabunia said.