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Working in the heart of London as the Coronavirus crisis rages, Ahmed ElHaddad, an intensive care consultant for Imperial College Healthcare, has seen the full horror of the pandemic.
He has witnessed tragedy after tragedy on the ICU since patients began flooding in during the first wave of coronavirus last spring. Dr ElHaddad has seen a 150 per cent increase in patients compared with April 2020 at St Mary’s Hospital in London’s Paddington district. His team now cares for about 50 coronavirus patients a day with the hospital forced to create two more ICUs.
The hospital in which he works is