“The exhibition center is generally taken as a place to gather people in times of disaster, so the location of the hospital has its own logic. We all firmly believe that it will not have to be used at all, “Jiří Kuliš, General Manager of Trade Fairs Brno, told Práva.
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Historically for the first time
Since 1928, people have seen almost everything in the halls of the Brno Exhibition Center. Archaeologist and cave explorer Karel Absolon once exhibited his copy of the mammoth in one. Curious, the curious admired things taken from the sunken famous ship Titanic, or paintings from the Slavic epic Alfons Mucha. Of course, countless state-of-the-art machinery and equipment could be seen in them. Now, for the first time in history, a training hospital is being built at the exhibition center, but a real hospital.
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The premises were provided by the company Veletrhy Brno for a symbolic crown. The exhibition center provides a hall, including a cubicle system, ie cells ensuring that patients are placed only in pairs and that everyone has at least partial privacy. The equipment of the hospital will be taken care of by the University Hospital in Brno, which is the largest medical facility of its kind in Moravia.
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Questions about the future
It is expected that the medical material will be transported to the G2 pavilion next week. Everyone strives to have the hospital completely ready within two weeks. In just two weeks, the situation in the Czech Republic should be the worst in terms of the number of patients. If the government-issued security measures now work, the increase in patients should stop and later begin to decline.
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Although there are heated discussions about further developments, no one can pinpoint it. It is certain that the number of sick and dying is increasing. The hospital is filling patients. The beds in them are more and more occupied by people with Covid-19.
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According to the representatives of Brno hospitals, it will therefore probably be necessary to use the hospital. The teaching hospital is ready to send its eighteen-member team of doctors and nurses to it. But that will not be enough. More staff will be needed. It will probably be necessary to use medics and volunteers.
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