IHBC’s COVID-19 signpost 8: ‘Nightingale’s’ excellent response to COVID-19 – ‘The UK just built the world’s largest critical care unit within two weeks’

American broadcaster CNBC has celebrated the world’s largest critical care unit opening in London, as the U.K. steps up its fight to tackle the spread of the coronavirus.

CNBC writes:

  • To help fight coronavirus the U.K. government commissioned the build of NHS Nightingale within the London Excel conference center.
  • NHS Nightingale is Britain’s first COVID-19 pop-up hospital and the world’s largest critical care unit.
  • The hospital has 500 beds but can increase capacity to between 4,000 and 5,000 beds….

The world’s largest critical care unit opened in London on Friday, as the U.K. steps up its fight to tackle the spread of the coronavirus.

U.K. health-care workers and the British military worked together to overhaul the London ExCel center, which normally hosts conferences and exhibitions, building the pop-up Nightingale hospital in just nine days.

The hospital was built to help Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) cope with the surge in demand for emergency care due to the coronavirus, which has so far infected 34,192 and killed 2,926 people in the U.K., according to latest data from Johns Hopkins University.

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For more background see the following links:

BBC News
Wikipedia Huyoshenshan Hospital
YouTube
CNN Asia
YouTube
The Guardian
The Evening Standard
Wikipedia Nightingale Hospital

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