Chilling pictures of giant liquid oxygen tanks at NHS Nightingale hospital

Chilling pictures show the giant liquid oxygen tanks being used at make-shift NHS Nightingale hospital in Yorkshire

  • Construction at the Harrogate Convention Centre hospital is ongoing today 
  • Health chiefs last week said the site would be able to care for up to 500 patients
  • Contractors were pictured working on ambulance bay entrances at the facility 

Chilling images show the giant liquid oxygen tanks being used at a make-shift NHS Nightingale hospital in Yorkshire. 

Construction at the Harrogate Convention Centre is ongoing today as health bosses plan to get the temporary hospital up and running as soon as possible. 

Contractors were this afternoon pictured working on the entrances to ambulance bays at the facility. It is unclear when it will be ready for use.

Health chiefs last week announced the make-shift site would be able to care for up to 500 patients across Yorkshire.

One of the five Nightingale hospitals – the 4,000-bed facility at the ExCel Centre in the Docklands, London – in England is already operational.

Chilling images show the giant liquid oxygen tanks being used at a make-shift NHS Nightingale hospital in Yorkshire

One of the liquid oxygen tanks outside the Harrogate Nightingale Hospital dwarfs the two vans it stands next to

One of the liquid oxygen tanks outside the Harrogate Nightingale Hospital dwarfs the two vans it stands next to

Health chiefs last week announced the Harrogate Convention Centre would become a temporary hospital that could care for up to 500 patients

Health chiefs last week announced the Harrogate Convention Centre would become a temporary hospital that could care for up to 500 patients

More than 5,400 cases of the life-threatening coronavirus have been recorded in the North East and Yorkshire, official figure show.

Only London (12,636), the Midlands (7,385) and the North West (5,549) have been hit harder since the crisis began.

It comes after the ExCel Centre’s Abu Dhabi-based owners backed down on plans to bill the NHS up to £3million-a-month for using their centre. 

Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, Adnec, said in a statement it would scrap a ‘contribution to some fixed costs’.

The NEC in Birmingham, owned by US private equity giant Blackstone, as well as the Manchester Central Complex both said they would not charge the NHS.       

The ExCel Centre was converted into a Nightingale hospital in nine days to care for 4,000 patients within 80 wards, making it one of the largest in the world.

The NHS’s chief executive Simon Stevens called the building of the London hospital ‘nothing short of extraordinary’.

Prince Charles officially opened the hospital on April 3 and said he hoped it would bring a message of ‘hope for those who will need it most’.  

Nightingale hospitals are also planned for the University of the West of England in Bristol, and the Harrogate Convention Centre. 

Contractors work on the entrance to ambulance bays at the Nightingale Hospital Yorkshire

Contractors work on the entrance to ambulance bays at the Nightingale Hospital Yorkshire

The ExCel centre, owned by Ahu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, reversed its decision to charge the NHS up to £3million-a-month to use its facility

The ExCel centre, owned by Ahu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company, reversed its decision to charge the NHS up to £3million-a-month to use its facility



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