<<< Taipei designates Heping hospital as H7N9 center >>>
<<< Taipei designates Heping hospital as H7N9 center >>>
Taipei City has geared up efforts to tackle a potential H7N9 avian flu outbreak, preparing the isolation rooms at a hospital that helped win the hard-fought battle against SARS a decade ago, health officials said yesterday.
The city municipal hospital's Heping Branch has been designated the center for treating H7N9 patients, because of its facilities and experience in tackling the deadly SARS epidemic in 2003, the city's health officials said.
Heping is currently preparing five of its 77 negative pressure isolation rooms, and if any H7N9 case is confirmed in Taiwan, all the others will be opened, the officials said.
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