Bao'an District will build a hospital featuring air and sea rescue service, the first one in the country. The hospital, a 2.1-billion-yuan (US$317.8 million) investment, will start construction in December and is expected to be put into use in 2025, the Bao’an District Health Bureau said Monday.

The project, approved in 2018, is located at the junction of Airport South Road and Bao’an Boulevard. It is close to Shenzhen-Zhongshan Corridor, and only 3 kilometers, measured in a straight line, to Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport and Fuyong ferry terminal.

“Based on the remarkable geographical location, the hospital will be the nation’s first 3A-grade hospital that is designated for both airport and maritime emergency rescue,” an official with the district’s health bureau said.

The hospital will cover an area of 50,000 square meters with a floor area of 200,000 square meters. It will be divided into three areas, specifically airport first-aid center, medical treatment area and training area, and equipped with 800 beds.

Providing aviation and nautical rescue as the priority, the hospital will focus on emergency medicine, traumatology, aviation medicine and nautical medicine, and will develop a new system in cooperation with Hong Kong and Macao in providing emergency medical assistance, to build the hospital into an emergency rescue center for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The hospital will operate in a mode that combines functions for peacetime and wartime, setting up emergency rescue systems, including an emergency room, day-time surgery center (including day-time wards) and ICU.

During peacetime, the airport first-aid center will support the daily operations of Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport, while the hospital will serve as a comprehensive facility for the surrounding communities. During wartime, the hospital will work together with the first-aid center to provide rescue operations for a maximum of 200 critical patients.

Helipads will be set up on the rooftop and a rescue square on the ground to be available for varieties of rescue helicopters so as to receive and transfer critical patients in a prompt manner.