Kyrgyzstan Opens Makeshift Hospitals As COVID-19 Cases Rise
A 570-bed makeshift hospital in Kyrgyzstan's northwestern Talas region, which officially recorded its first COVID-19 cases in June.
As of July 9, the Talas region had recorded more than 80 coronavirus cases and two deaths. The area was closed to visitors at the end of June.
COVID-19 patients receive treatment at a makeshift hospital in the southwestern Kyrgyz city of Jalal-Abad.
Hospitals in Jalal-Abad say they are getting more than 150 new COVID-19 patients a day.
Workers set up a makeshift hospital in a Jalal-Abad gym on July 8. Health officials in the region say they need 300 more oxygen concentrators. Of the 372 concentrators currently available to Kyrgyz doctors, 23 are not working.
More than 1,000 beds for COVID-19 patients are being prepared at a day hospital in Kyrgyzstan's Batken region. Currently, beds are ready in the Kyzyl-Kiya and Leilek districts.
Neighboring Uzbekistan has donated protective gear and lab equipment to help Kyrgyzstan's Batken region deal with the rising number of COVID-19 cases.
Makeshift facilities will be used to provide medical care to infected patients if there is a shortage of hospital beds. Some 1,790 temporary beds have been prepared in case the Batken region's 435 hospital beds fill up.
Government official Akylbek Osmonaliev (right) inspects makeshift hospitals in the Issyk-Kul region.
More than 1,300 new beds have been set up in Issyk-Kul.
Personal protection equipment is being stockpiled for medical workers.
Medical personnel working in Issyk-Kul.
A hospital in the eastern city of Karakol in the Issyk-Kul region on July 9
A 829-bed day hospital has also been opened in Kyrgyzstan's Naryn region to deal with a rise in COVID-19 cases.
There are also scores more beds available in other districts such as At-Bashy, Ak-Talaa Jumgal, Kochkor, and Naryn.
On July 9, 18 new coronavirus cases were recorded in the Naryn region bringing the total number of people with infections there to 604.
Medical staff at a school in the Dordoy district of Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek.
A Bishkek school gym transformed into a makeshift hospital.