RIYADH: In its intensifying efforts to halt the transmission of infections, the Saudi Ministry of Health (MoH) said 1,400 isolation rooms had been set up in the Kingdom’s hospitals to receive patients with severe symptoms.
MoH’s hospitals have 1,449 negative pressure isolation rooms, in conformity with specifications in hospitals across the Kingdom’s provinces.
The MoH has provided 870 high-efficiency portable air filtration devices for the isolation rooms.
Isolation rooms are equipped with an air-conditioning system using lower air pressure, designed to prevent the transmission of diseases from one patient to another or to workers at the hospitals.
