Nightingale Hospitals: The Great Lie
Given the recent spike in Covid-19 cases and hospital admissions, the news reports are full of stories about overwhelmed hospitals. Seriously ill patients are being driven from one county to another in the hope of finding a hospital bed for them.
Understandably, the question has been asked. Why not use the purpose built Nightingale Hospitals? They were built in record time earlier this year, with the assistance of the Army. Every bed had access to a ventilator, and they were specifically designed to accommodate Coronavirus patients, thereby allowing other hospitals to continue to see other patients who did not have Covid-19.
The one in London at the Excel Centre cost tens of millions of pounds to convert and equip.
Journalists went there, to see how it was coping with the recent rise in cases.
They found it had been dismantled. It is now mostly an empty building, guarded by security staff who are supposed to stop people finding that out. But they told the reporters anyway. This is what they said.
It has no hospital beds inside.
It has no ventilators or oxygen inside.
It has no operational medical staff inside.
The equipment has apparently been ‘redeployed’ to other areas of the NHS.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/covid-patients-england-nightingale-hospitals-b538294.html
Yes, it was all a great lie. Built with the help of the Army, and equipped by companies owned by friends of Boris Johnson and his cronies, only to be stripped out at the earliest opportunity. Don’t forget this, when the next election comes around.
Five hundred Intensive care beds just removed without public consultation, at a time when they are needed more than ever before in history.
Boris and his pals should be hanging from lamp-posts.
But nobody seems to care.
I do though.
Just dreadful. Criminal in fact. 😦
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And the latest report is that the London one will reopen for ‘cases other than Covid-19’. What a complete con it all was.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Makes my blood boil Pete. Sigh. You just couldn’t make this up. All best, Marje
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Reblogged this on Have We Had Help? and commented:
No wonder the hospitals are full to overflowing!!!
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I am thinking there needs to be a new word for government. You know like the opposite of progress is congress, so what is the opposite of government? Warmest regards, Theo
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I searched to see if there is a new word (other than Anarchy) that is the opposite of ‘Government’. I was offered this appropriate choice online.
‘Misgovernment’.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Works for me. 🙂 It is accurate.
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Here things are dire on the West coast. Apparently in the rush to economize California closed many hospitals. Now there is no room at the inn and people are dying on ambulances.
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We have ambulances sitting outside completely full London hospitals waiting to be told where to take their seriously ill patients. I’m glad that I am no longer an EMT, as I would be raging.
Best wishes, Pete.
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I didn’t know it was that bad in London also. I can’t imagine the pain of the EMTs.
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Our governments have so much in common.😔
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Yes, Donald and Boris see much to admire in each other. Greed for one thing.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Follow the money… and protect yourself from electronic pollution…
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I know where the money went, Lara. Into the pockets of Boris and his friends. They didn’t even try to hide it!
Best wishes, Pete.
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The flagship Covid hospital over here only accepts you if you have mild symptoms!
https://notesfrompoland.com/2020/11/18/only-30-patients-at-warsaw-field-hospital-amid-complaints-it-accepts-only-mild-covid-cases/
I was talking to a guy from Berlin today who works for an EU healthcare staffing agency (which covers the UK) and he said that all they are doing is shuffling people around and getting paid more. The simple fact is that there are not enough trained staff in the EU to deal with Covid, so little hope for the rest of the world.
As for Boris, I’d happily tie the noose, nothing but bullshit and blunder.
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Cheers, Eddy. Thanks for the link too.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Staffing them was always going to be a problem, there’s a 40,000 shorfall of Nurses to date.
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I appreciate the shortages, but then why did Boris say they were ‘ready to receve patients’? I heard on the news today that they will only be taking ‘Non-Covid’ patients when they reopen. Another confusing mess.
(Sorry about the Spam thing.)
Best wishes, Pete.
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Not to worry about spam. Yes bojo lies like Pinocchio.
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I’ve seen at least one comment on Facebook from a medical professional [I think a nurse, but I might be wrong] to the effect that the Nightingale Hospitals aren’t being used because there isn’t the staff to run them, but that does presuppose that they are otherwise in a state of readiness; i.e.: complete with all the necessary equipment. This is obviously not the case, but people do often sound off without checking their facts first. Cheers, Jon.
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Boris was asked that question about staffing on the ‘special briefing’ and was adamant that enough staff were ‘In place and ready’. Another lie.
Best wishes, Pete.
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He really does embody that old joke about “How do you know when a politician is lying?”, doesn’t he?
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It’s downright criminal Pete. I am so disgusted with this government and its fake promises, lies and profiteering. We should demand they rebuild the Nightingale hospitals and get using them!
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The apathy of the general public is staggering. They make more fuss online about Facebook going down, or not being able to do a Google search. It used to be said that we were ‘Lions ruled by donkeys’. But that is no longer even close to the truth.
Best wishes, Pete. x
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Do people not care anymore?
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Not enough of them, obviously. If this had happened in the 1960s, there would be crowds protesting outside Downing Street.
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Sounds about right….look at the Navy hospital ships that are underused….a great resource and are not used…..how silly is that? chuq
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Some people have made small fortunes out of those unused facilities, that’s for sure.
Best wishes, Pete.
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