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The new University Hospital of Wales wing built to treat hundreds of coronavirus patients in Cardiff
The Lakeside Wing took 20 weeks to build and is already accepting patients
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Since the coronavirus pandemic began increasing the strain on the health service last year, Welsh hospitals have felt pressure like never before.
As routine treatments were delayed, intensive care beds were quickly taken up by desperately ill patients suffering with the virus and field hospitals were built across the country. It became clear there was more need than ever for additional hospital capacity.
The building has been officially handed over to Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CAVUHB). As of Monday, February 8, building work on the new surge facility has been completed, just 20 weeks after construction first started. This means that the ownership of the modular build has been given to the Health Board from the primary contactors, Darwin Group Ltd. Delivering an additional 234 beds, the completion of the Southern Wing of the site by Darwin Group brings the total capacity of the modular building to 400 patients; this, with the additional 200 beds available across the Health Board’s sites, will allow CAVUHB to provide 600 beds in total which meets the capacity requirement as predicted by Welsh Government and local intelligence data and modelling in the event of another COVID-19 spike.