UCLH scrambling to convert theatres, recovery areas and stroke wards into ICUs for the very sick
One of London’s biggest hospitals has warned it is on track to become virtually Covid-only amid a surge in cases in the capital that has left it scrambling to convert operating theatres, surgical recovery areas and stroke wards into intensive care units for the very sick.
As the Covid case numbers in the UK continued an apparently inexorable rise, hitting 55,892, with 23,813 in hospitals and 964 reported deaths, the chief executive of University College London Hospitals trust, Prof Marcel Levi, said admissions were already spiralling beyond the first wave in the spring.
