The BBC has donated fully working ventilators from the set of medical drama Holby City to the new Nightingale Hospital in London The corporation shared the news in a tweet, showing workers loading equipment into a van.
Holby City executive producer Simon Harper said: “We are only too happy to help out and do what we can for the courageous and selfless real-life medics.” It was not immediately clear how many ventilators had been donated, or why working medical equipment was used on set.
The first new NHS Nightingale hospital was created in just nine days to help cope with the coronavirus pandemic. It has the potential to offer 4,000 beds at the ExCeL Centre site in the capital’s Docklands, in Newham, east London.