A new hospital is being built near Madrid Airport as the city prepares for a momentary wave of coronavirus.
An army of cranes fills the horizon as staff paint tirelessly to build the new special hospital on the occasion of a pandemic, which is expected to be completed until November.Let’s admit it or not, the time of the Covid-19 epidemic.it is already underway in Spain and is testing the capital’s public fitness system.
It is understood that around 400 developers have been working 24 hours since July to build the Isabel Zendal Hospital of 45,000 square meters (484,000 square feet).The facility will be the first in Spain to be built in particular for the crisis, which will operate at NHS Nightingale hospitals in the UK.
NHS Nightingale hospitals in the UK are preparing and setting up for a wave of viruses at the expected time.
Madrid’s regional government is spending around 50 million euros to build the hospital, which will have floor-to-ceiling windows and allow doctors to monitor patients without being infected and will also have giant rooms without single rooms.
The architecture designed to “prevent transmission” of viruses.The inspiration came here from the design of a transitional box hospital that was installed at the great Ifema exhibition in Madrid in mid-March and May, Mirando said.
However, it is feared that the opening of the new hospital will come too far to cope with the uptick in infections in the Community of Madrid, which the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has described as “worrying”.
Madrid accounts for about a third, 73, of the country’s 191 Covid-19-related deaths recorded in Spain last week, and nearly one-third of the country’s total death toll of 29,000.the pandemic,” said Silvia Durán, spokesperson for Amyts’ doctors’ union.
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A Spanish doctors’ organization in Madrid files a complaint against the regional government, while many other doctors across the country have signed an open letter that is not easy for the regional government to “act to prevent further collapse” of the fitness system.
Among the demands of fitness staff, there is greater use of telemedicine: “We are the ones who are going to get sick,” said Durán of Amyts’ doctors’ union.for approximately 20% of all Covid-19 cases in Spain, the proportion in the world, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
At the beginning of the pandemic, China managed to build a 1000-bed hospital in just 48 hours.
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