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.
1. Ready for business
The CeSAM building is just off Downhill Lane and just a short distance off the A19. | JPIMedia Photo: Frank Reid
2. A view into the future
An artist's impression of what the IAMP site will look like once is is finished. | Other 3rd Party Photo: Supplied
3. Keeping deliveries coming
A makeshift sign has been set up next to the building to direct people into the site. | JPIMedia Photo: Frank Reid
4. Getting ready as installation begins
A number of temporary buildings have been set up next to the Cesam building as the project begins to come together. | JPIMedia Photo: Frank Reid