A former soldier has told how working at London’s Nightingale Hospital was “as tough a war zone”. Army medic Jamie Jones, 41, retired from the forces in 2010 after 15 years and became a health adviser.
But when he was furloughed he helped build the 4,000-bed facility and then accepted an offer to do 12-hour shifts maintaining ventilators and other emergency gear in the critical resuscitation team.
He said: “Working at Nightingale is as tough as Camp Bastion or any of the other seven operational deployments and tours I’ve done – only this time the enemy is an incredibly evil and dangerous virus we still don’t understand. “To see the scale of this place, how quickly patients can suddenly deteriorate, it’s genuinely frightening. "It’s still
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