The ExCeL Exhibition Center is a large-scale fair, congress and event venue, opened to the public in 2000, located in East London, in the Docklands area of the Thames river. It is located in an area of 400,000 m² on the dock known as the Royal Victoria. It consists of two main enclosures with an area of 32,500 m² each. These can be sectioned into smaller units depending on the needs of the event or exhibition to be held.
To get to the ExCeL there are the the North London or Docklands Light Railway (Custom House station), and the London City Airport is just one kilometer east from there. These advantages were what led the British to choose it as the first field hospital in the city.
ExCeL London is cooperating fully with the UK's National Health Service and all relevant parties with the aim of providing all available capacities necessary to facilitate the work of medical teams. In addition, the complex will provide all the technical and logistical support necessary to maintain the operation of the site facilities, in accordance with the highest global standards.
The NHS Hospital of Nightingale will have a capacity of 4,000 beds and will be able to provide a full range of medical support facilities for those infected with COVID-19. The hospital is expected to contain two units, each of which can accommodate 2,000 people.
The NHS Nightingale Hospital is expected to open for patients next week, and will be used immediately to care for those suffering from severe symptoms of COVID-19. The ExCeL are coordinating closely with the British health authorities to ensure the smooth establishment of medical facilities, while ensuring that doctors receive all necessary support to facilitate patient care.
London's largest international exhibition and convention center was acquired by ADNEC (Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Company) in 2008. The venue includes London's only International Convention Center, ICC London, which opened in 2010. The ICC London is capable of hosting more large-scale business conventions such as ICE London, one of the two most important gambling trade shows in the world, organized by Clarion every year during February.
This growth in terms of the quality and the number of events boosted the city's economy, improving its infrastructure through various stages of development, and created an economic impact through the business tourism sector.
Based in the Docklands of London, in the capital of the United Kingdom, ExCeL London has a capacity to accommodate 70,000 people. New field hospital will treat up to 4,000 previously fit and healthy people struck down by COVID-19 once it opens, with sicker patients who are more likely to die being cared for in normal NHS (National Health Service) hospitals.
London patients in need of intensive care but with the best chance of survival will be taken to the Nightingale hospital, which has been constructed within the ExCel arena. Anyone with a serious underlying health condition – such as a heart, kidney or vascular problem – will go to one of the city’s district general or teaching hospitals.
The triage system means that the ExCel will take mainly younger patients – and potentially admit few older patients than those in their mid-50s – with NHS hospitals concentrating on older, sicker people.
Source: GMB
