Some Welsh field hospital beds cost £166,667 per patient just in rent at the height of the pandemic
We can now reveal some of the extraordinary costs Wales incurred as NHS executives sought to prepare for the worst
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When the coronavirus pandemic struck last spring, there was a scramble by Welsh councils and health boards to convert facilities into field hospitals.
Covid-19: Are field hospitals operating in Wales?
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image captionDragon s Heart Hospital at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff
When the coronavirus pandemic struck in the spring, facilities all over the country from sports stadia to theatres were rapidly converted into field hospitals.
Known in Wales as Enfys (Rainbow) hospitals and in England as Nightingale hospitals, they provided thousands of extra beds, many of which were never needed.
With cases now rocketing and regular hospitals closing other services because of the high number of Covid cases filling beds, are field hospitals still part of the mix for patient care?
How many field hospitals opened in Wales?