Coronavirus: Cubicles in new NHS hospital at London’s ExCel centre show likely scale of crisis

New pictures have been released of the huge 4,000 bed field hospital being built in London in the battle against coronavirus.

NHS Nightingale is being erected with help of the military at the ExCel centre in London’s Docklands.

Images of the rapid effort to build the temporary facility reveal the scale of cases expected in the capital and across the UK over the coming weeks as the pandemic reaches its peak.

Soldiers and contractors are in the process of converting the exhibition centre, which usually hosts spectacles and conferences.

[geetarwanabe]

All large venues should be doing something similar right now

[youtubelife]

It’s great that they’re building this and all but at least give the workers bloody protection. They’re all working in close proximity with many people with no masks or gloves

[sensibledriver]

Huge respect to the Army and contractors that built this in a week.

[fredkelly]

Gurkhas on the job = Job well done! Thank you!

[tootSweet]

All this would NOT have been necessary if the Government and Prime Minister had been prepared to sacrifice financial losses in one or two industries and enforced automatic quarantine on flights arriving from China, Italy and Iran from February for 14 days when cases started to increase in those countries. Now it is going to cost every industry billions of £££'s, result in job losses across the UK, cost every individual money to a greater or lesser extent, and, most tragically of all, the loss of many lives unnecessarily. Dither and Delay Boris has brought this about.

[pmarsh]

Stay calm! Don't speculate and don't always listen/read to what the MSM and other people purporting to be experts are saying. They are causing anxiety and distress. Listen to the advice from our top Medical and Scientific advisers with the measures that have been implemented to date.

[bringles]

and... five million spent by boris to send a letter to the public.

[dbec]

well done guys, keep our nhs staff safe

[SajidKhan-jgbk]

It's an Expo Centre where recently giant arms manufacturers held an exhibition!☹☹☹

[luxlox]

Wow, I can’t believe last year i was going there to decide what career and uni I was interested in and now all my exams are cancelled and it’s being turned into a literal emergency hospital

[weipu]

To all the fellow NHS doctors, we got this. We’re all used to working in a underfunded and over-managed system in a society that persistently votes against healthcare and social care. Nothing new.

[WizardOfCheese]

glad they chose to use relaxing colours for the flooring to ease the patients stress

[mike.B.]

It's very good to have this centre but it's not enough. It represents 0.04% of London population.

[MigFarm]

Thanks United Arab Emirates for giving the building

[Martyntd]

Equipment? What about staff? It takes FIVE trained ICU nurses to look after ONE ventilated patient. That is to cover 3 shifts per day and time off. Where are they going to get the hundreds of thousands of trained ICU nurses to staff these hospitals? There isnt enough now. It simply isn't possible. Whatever the government have planned for these hospitals, it must involve a very, very reduced level of patient care.

[cvhawkeye]

All well and good that beds are being prepared. How about the Ice Rinks!

[drewetpa]

If that 'hospital' has ventilators and a full complement of trained staff and assocaited equipment e.g. drugs, oxygen then it might loosely be called a 'field hospital'. Without those facilities it is effectively a euthenasia centre where thousands of the old and sick will go to die needlessly.

[cobbler]

Not a place you want to end up in. A lot of people with the contagious virus in one big room.

[sneekmatrix]

Wow excellent facility. The coronavirus will like this a lot. 🐰👻💕🍉

[supreme]

This will be were they shoot all the videos from...take two...cut!