Nightingale North East will have 16 wards ready to help the NHS care for coronavirus patients if the region’s hospitals cannot cope with demand for spaces and will be able to care for patients on ventilators.
Here’s how efforts are coming together as teams work to get it up and running within just weeks.
Read More... 9. Newly finished and ready to go Work to complete the construction of the building only finished in recent days. Photo: Frank Reid
10. A look inside An image released by the team showing the inside of the building before work began to turn it into a temporary hospital. Photo: Supplied
11. Helping visitors find their way Direction signs have been put up outside the plot, helping tradespeople and deliveries find their way. Photo: Frank Reid
12. On site set up A host of office buildings have arrived in the car park since the plans were first said to be in the pipeline. Photo: Frank Reid