A staff member shows the isolation beds at the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre on Oct 27, 2021. (EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY)

Members of the media visited on Wednesday the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre to view its cutting-edge innovations both in construction technology and cross-border project management.

The hospital is the first infectious-disease center in the world that has built negative-pressure isolation beds by using modular integrated construction technology, which allows free-standing integrated modules to be prefabricated in a factory before being transported to construction sites for installation.

Equipped with 816 isolation beds and hospital-grade isolation facilities, the center provides intravenous medication and oxygen therapy, which can help alleviate the demand for isolation beds in public hospitals.

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Apart from routine tests for clinical management, the laboratory at the center is also equipped with state-of-the-art and fully automated laboratory equipment to handle a maximum of 1,500 specimens per day and augment the overall laboratory capacity of public hospitals by about 15 percent.

Members of the media visit the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre on Oct 27, 2021. (EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY)

This photo shows a view of a nursing statin in the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre on Oct 27, 2021. (EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY)

A man talks with a staff member of the Specimen Reception Counter at the  North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre on Oct 27, 2021. (EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY)

This photo shows a view of the Specimen Reception Counter at the  North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre on Oct 27, 2021. (EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY)

Zhang Yi, CEO of China State Construction International Medical Industry Development Corp, speaks to reporters during a media tour of the North Lantau Hospital Hong Kong Infection Control Centre on Oct 27, 2021. (EDMOND TANG / CHINA DAILY)