The Chinese capital of Beijing plans to build its largest ever
outpatient building for the 2008 Olympic Games and 2008 Paralympic Games,
local sources said.??
The 16-storey building at the Anzhen Hospital in north Beijing,
covering an area of 58,000 square meters, will provide medical
services to more than 5,000 reporters at the Olympic media village
and athletes from the swimming venue, said hospital chief Zhang
Zhaoguang on Thursday.?
The building also has a parking lot which can accommodate 500
cars, said Zhang.??
The hospital will provide ten pharmaceutical experts to carry
out drug tests during the Olympics, said
Zhang.??
More than 20 hospitals in Beijing have been selected for the
2008 Olympic Games, with all the doctors receiving training in
English.??
Doctors in the designated hospitals will write prescriptions for
foreign patients in both Chinese and English, according to the
Beijing Municipal Health Bureau.??
First aid volunteers speaking other languages will be recruited.
The bureau will cooperate with banks to ensure foreign patients can
use international bank cards in the hospitals from 2007.
(Xinhua News Agency March 3, 2007)