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The makeshift field hospital set up in Central Park for COVID-19 patients was at near capacity Thursday as The Post got an inside-look at the facility amid the coronavirus crisis.

The 14-tent hospital, built by evangelical Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse, has 68 beds and by Thursday 52 of those beds were full after the facility opened on April 1.

Patients at the hospital – which sees eight to nine admissions per day — are between 26 and 90-years-old and the majority of them are Hispanic and black, officials said.

Most of the patients were transferred to the hospital, complete with 10 ICU beds, from the emergency department at Mount Sinai Brooklyn.

Of the 52 patients at the hospital, nine of them are currently in the ICU unit.

Kristen Dirkas, 34, an ICU critical care nurse at the hospital who has been on assignment in Iraq with the charity, compared the facility to that of a “war zone.”

“In a war zone there were mass trauma patients — when you get inside the tent it feels very familiar —even with the helicopters flying ahead – that reminds me a lot of Iraq,” Dirkas, a Texas resident, told The Post. “When you step out of the tent — you’re in Central Park.”

Dirkas, one of 98 staffers at the hospital, added, “It’s really hard to see the level of suffering these patients are experiencing. They seem quite anxious and some are terrified of it, so that is heartbreaking.”

“When I step outside and recognize that I’m in Central Park, yes, I get very overwhelmed that I am in this situation,” the nurse said.

The field hospital is equipped with a special station for PPE or personal protective equipment, including rubber boots, face shields, N95 masks and gloves.

“We have the PPE, so that’s not a main concern right now,” Dirkas said.

The patients, most of whom experience shortness of breath and fever symptoms, are being treated with hydroxychloroquine — an anti-malaria drug sold under the brand name Plaquenil, Dirkas said.

“I can say with that with what we’ve seen in our patients so far, they do seem to turn around [on] day four on this medication,” said Dirkas. “But it really depends on a whole host of factors — one is there comorbidity — other underlining issues they have.”

The coronavirus patients who die from the disease at the hospital are then stored at an on-site makeshift morgue.

“We contact a funeral home and get their body transferred,” Dirkas said. “There is a separate tent to store bodies.”