26 Mar, 2020 @ 15:20
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King of Spain visits coronavirus hospital in Madrid

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KING Felipe VI has been visiting the emergency hospital set up in
Madrid’s massive IFEMA conference centre for coronavirus patients.

Spain’s monarch was accompanied by the Minister of Defence, Margarita
Robles, and the Mayor of Madrid, Jose Luis Martinez Almeida at this
morning’s inspection.

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VISIT: King Felipe was shown plans for the temporary hospital.

The hospital, which has been set up by the Community of Madrid, the
Ministry of Health and the Military Emergency Unit (MEU), is expected to
have 1,400 beds ready by next week.

Plans are in place to extend this to a total of 5,500 should it be
needed – making it Spain’s biggest hospital.

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VIEWED: The king inspects one of the 96 intensive care beds.

The wards have been set up in pavilions seven and nine, where the first
1,300 conventional beds plus 96 intensive care unit beds are being
installed across 35,000 square metres of space.

The two pavilions have enough room for a total of 2,000 beds with a
space of three metres between each one.

If more beds are needed, additional pavilions will be opened up.
IFEMA is also opening its doors to provide shelter for the homeless
during the coronavirus crisis.

The first patients started arriving at the facility on Saturday night.

Dilip Kuner

Dilip Kuner is a NCTJ-trained journalist whose first job was on the Folkestone Herald as a trainee in 1988.
He worked up the ladder to be chief reporter and sub editor on the Hastings Observer and later news editor on the Bridlington Free Press.
At the time of the first Gulf War he started working for the Sunday Mirror, covering news stories as diverse as Mick Jagger’s wedding to Jerry Hall (a scoop gleaned at the bar at Heathrow Airport) to massive rent rises at the ‘feudal village’ of Princess Diana’s childhood home of Althorp Park.
In 1994 he decided to move to Spain with his girlfriend (now wife) and brought up three children here.
He initially worked in restaurants with his father, before rejoining the media world in 2013, working in the local press before becoming a copywriter for international firms including Accenture, as well as within a well-known local marketing agency.
He joined the Olive Press as a self-employed journalist during the pandemic lock-down, becoming news editor a few months later.
Since then he has overseen the news desk and production of all six print editions of the Olive Press and had stories published in UK national newspapers and appeared on Sky News.

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