Coronavirus, three new hospital will be open to face this emergency in the UK.
To combat the Coronavirus pandemic even more effectively, the UK has decided to open three new hospitals.
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The three new hospitals to fight coronavirus
Due to rose up the infected people for Coronavirus, the Prince of Wales officially opened London’s new NHS Nightingale Hospital. The hospital will treat intensive care for COVID-19 patients. It has a 4,000-bed temporary facility at the ExCel convention centre in East London.
Prince Charles who is recently recovered from a mild case of COVID-19 will conduct ceremony via video link. He will do it from his Scottish residence at Birkhall, where he self-isolated for seven days last week. Not only Prince Charles, but Matt Hancock the Health Secretary will also join a small group. Also, there are Prof Charles Knight, chief executive of NHS Nightingale, the Ministry of Defence, contractors and volunteers at the new hospital.
Two more Nightingale hospitals will be opened in Bristol and Harrogate, NHS England also confirmed. This news comes as coach operator Megabus announced it will suspend all services in England and Wales by Sunday. The NHS England chief executive, Sir Simon Stevens, will confirm that the extra sites in south-west England and Yorkshire, which will have up to 1,500 beds if needed, have joined Manchester and Birmingham as the latest locations for major new facilities outside of London. Each of the five Nightingale hospitals will serve the wider regions in which they are located.
The new hospital in east London is the first to open and will initially provide up to 500 beds equipped with ventilators and oxygen. The capacity will then increase, potentially up to several thousand beds should it be required. Based on the plan, it will involve soldiers with experience from Afghanistan and the West African Ebola crisis working in support of health service staff. Up to 200 soldiers a day have been working alongside NHS staff and civilian contractors.
The new hospital in Manchester will be built at the city’s Manchester Central complex while at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. That place will take care of patients as needed in the West Midlands, the region second hardest hit by the virus. Each of these new services will initially have up to 500 beds, potentially offering as many as 3,000 more between them if cases escalate.
On the other news, Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, said the peak of the virus may be “slightly sooner” than previously predicted. It will come in the next few weeks. But now lockdown has come into play. The peak will come sooner if more people follow those social distancing rules. So Matt Hancock urges people to say at home to keep the peak small.
