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Helicopter parking area to build on top of hospital
18/8/2003 15:13

A helicopter parking apron will be built on the top of a new building of Huashan Hospital scheduled to complete construction by June next year, as part of a move to improve the city's ability to react to the emergencies, the Labor Post reported today.
The Shanghai Municipal Government recently worked out a plan to improve the local public sanitation system, establishing a quick-reacting and highly-efficient public sanitation system from the year 2003 to 2005, according to a local sanitation work conference.
According to the plan, the city will establish a medical treatment system in three years to improve the city and district-level isolation hospitals, medical treatment institutes and other medical institutes for public emergencies.
As part of the plan, a new outpatient and emergency service building with the Huashan Hospital, to start construction at the beginning of next year, will have a helicopter parking apron on its top by June next year.
The new parking apron, together with a similar one on the top of a new building with the Changzheng Hospital and a small airport with the Shanghai First People's Hospital's Songjiang Branch will form a first-aid system in the air.




 Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news