- Privateer's failure hits as Liverpool's hospital beds fill up Archived Message
- Privateer's failure hits as Liverpool's hospital beds fill up - sashimi October 16, 2020, 10:00 pm
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Posted by sashimi
on October 16, 2020, 10:00 pm
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(quote) Union blames lack of capacity for region's Tier-3 status That hospitals in Liverpool are near capacity while a failed privateer's facility stands idle is a "catastrophic failure," trade unionists said today. Unfinished construction work at the new Liverpool Royal Hospital, due to open in 2017 but delayed until 2022 after privateer Carillion collapsed, means that it is unable to accept Covid-19 patients. Meanwhile hospital staff have reported to public-service union Unison that one in five in-patients at the city's two main hospitals - the old Royal and the Aintree - has coronavirus. Unison said locally that "urgent measures" were being deployed at the hospitals to deal with increasing difficulties, and that staff illnesses and absences are rising. Kevan Nelson, Unison's north-west regional secretary, told the Morning Star that lack of hospital capacity was "a major factor in Liverpool being put into Tier-3 restrictions." Parts of the new Royal were opened for coronavirus patients during the pandemic's first wave. But Mr Nelson said that the new contractor, Laing-O'Rourke, discovered major defects in the building, including structural faults, which need to be corrected at a cost of £300 million. TUC north-west secretary Lynn Collins said that what should have been a "state-of-the-art" hospital for Liverpool is "standing idle." Figures for the seven days to October 12, released today, showed that Merseyside's Knowsley and Liverpool had the second and third highest case rates in Britain - coming only behind Nottingham. (/quote) -- Cont'd at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/privateers-failure-hits-as-liverpool-hospital-beds-fill-up |
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