Star: KUALA TERENGGANU: The Kuala Terengganu Hospital, renamed Hospital Sultanah Nur Zahirah yesterday, will have an “hyperbaric chamber unit” in its emergency department to treat injured scuba divers.
This is in support of the expanding tourism industry and scuba-diving activities in the state.
Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek said the unit, the first in the east coast, was on par with the one at the military hospital in Lumut.
“The setting-up of the unit is part of the RM5.5mil upgrading and renovation of the hospital’s Emergency Department,” he said in his speech at a ceremony to rename the hospital yesterday.
Among the upgrading projects planned are building a maternity specialist complex (RM120mil), a stroke ward/ acute ICU (RM37mil) and a psychiatry and mental health complex (RM28mil), and expanding the intensive care unit (RM25mil).
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