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It has gone from a blank sheet to fully operational hospital in less than a fortnight. And that has been made possible because of military expertise.
The language used by the prime minister and his aides is martial. There's much talk of battle lines being drawn.So it is appropriate the Ministry of Defence was asked to help deliver this project. Skills honed on the battlefields of Afghanistan have been deployed to the frontline in east London."It's an unseen enemy. It still is a battle. And it is a timeline that you are working to.
"It's always trying to get ahead of the picture, of the enemy. And in this case you are trying to get ahead of a virus."So the whole idea about building at scale and pace is to build a really fantastic facility that delivers safe care at scale and keeping ahead of the battle, ahead of the virus. That's what we do.
"The NHS have been absolutely fantastic, we're here supporting them in delivering an amazing facility, helping them to plan and think things through."There are rows after rows of beds as far as I can see.When it is all up and running there will be capacity for 4,000 patients. Colonel Boreham said:"We came together about nine days ago, sat around, with social distancing, a coffee table and looked at the designs of this facility and building
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