Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image courtesy : cx110
According to EasyJet, it has grounded its fleet of 344 jets for two months after completing 650 repatriation flights to the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, it has written letters to its 9000 staff to consider working at upcoming square cabin hospitals in the country to combat COVID-19 on a volunteer basis.
It is understood 4000 of 9000 EasyJet's staff have been trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) excercise.
Square cabin hospitals are makeshift hospitals that take only days to complete construction. The idea originates from Wuhan the first epicentre of the pandemic.
Image : A view of Nightingale Square Cabin Hospital, under construction, at London ExCel Centre. Web Screenshot
The United Kingdom is building the Nightingale Square Cabin Hospital at London ExCel Centre. This hospital will have 500 beds for ventilators and oxygen generators. According to Prof Duncan Young of the Oxford University, each bed will be managed by 6 to 7 nurses. To cope with 500 covid patients, a square cabin hospital requires 500 to 1000 experienced nursing staff.
The other upcoming square cabin hospitals of the United Kingdom are located in London, Birmingham and Manchester.
EasyJet's staff will be voluntarily trained to measure patients' temperature, conduct nucleic acid tests and manage the accommodation and treatment of covid patients in the square cabin hospitals.
Besides EasyJet, Virgin Atlantic has written 4000 letters to its staff to work the same at the United Kingdom's makeshift hospitals after grounding its flights. Their staff, for example, will be trained to change beds at the hospitals, offer intensive care to the patients and in other technical skills required to operate the ventilators and oxygen generators.
The volunteers will be paid monthly wages by the airlines, depending on the duration of the pandemic.
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image courtesy : cx110
According to EasyJet, it has grounded its fleet of 344 jets for two months after completing 650 repatriation flights to the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, it has written letters to its 9000 staff to consider working at upcoming square cabin hospitals in the country to combat COVID-19 on a volunteer basis.
It is understood 4000 of 9000 EasyJet's staff have been trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) excercise.
Square cabin hospitals are makeshift hospitals that take only days to complete construction. The idea originates from Wuhan the first epicentre of the pandemic.
Image : A view of Nightingale Square Cabin Hospital, under construction, at London ExCel Centre. Web Screenshot
The United Kingdom is building the Nightingale Square Cabin Hospital at London ExCel Centre. This hospital will have 500 beds for ventilators and oxygen generators. According to Prof Duncan Young of the Oxford University, each bed will be managed by 6 to 7 nurses. To cope with 500 covid patients, a square cabin hospital requires 500 to 1000 experienced nursing staff.
The other upcoming square cabin hospitals of the United Kingdom are located in London, Birmingham and Manchester.
EasyJet's staff will be voluntarily trained to measure patients' temperature, conduct nucleic acid tests and manage the accommodation and treatment of covid patients in the square cabin hospitals.
Besides EasyJet, Virgin Atlantic has written 4000 letters to its staff to work the same at the United Kingdom's makeshift hospitals after grounding its flights. Their staff, for example, will be trained to change beds at the hospitals, offer intensive care to the patients and in other technical skills required to operate the ventilators and oxygen generators.
The volunteers will be paid monthly wages by the airlines, depending on the duration of the pandemic.
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