Name: Coronavirus intensive care: patients speak about their battle for survival - BBC News
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well in the space off a few weeks, the NHS has been forced to shift its entire focus, really, to tackle the Corona virus crisis.

We've heard from staff across the UK about the challenges they face along with shortages, off equipment on resources.

On last night, our medical correspondent Fergus Washing cameraman Adam Walker, brought you this story off the doctors and nurses working in the intensive care unit at University College Hospital in London.

On tonight, Fergus reports on the way that the hospital has had to transform its way of working.

At first glance, it looks like a normal hospital, but Corona virus has changed everything.

Ward after Ward has been cleared for Cove in 19 patients.

I didn't take this seriously enough in Iran is just 37 has breathing difficulties due to the virus you don't know.

How about it is until it actually hits you.

And so I would absolutely I urge everybody to listen to the government guidance and stay away from people.

He has a wife and two Children, everything to fight for.

I have I felt times where my body has been willing to just give up completely, and I'm not.

From the moment patients arrive at a any nurses and doctors face the risk of infection, I do worry about my staff because they're being exposed to patients who have a dangerous disease.

The man in charge of the hospital throughout this crisis leads from the front.

I work in a any with Corona virus patients I'm I'm also anxious with.

On the other hand, we are all professionals.

We know how to protect ourselves, and we know the risk so we can deal with this.

The biggest transformation has bean in intensive and high dependency care, where the number of beds has increased fivefold with plans for even more.

All those questions really kick critical on three things.

That's difficult because inevitably, we've had staff go off.

Our current problem today is having enough I t you great top ventilators.

If your orange you're suspected which is the very sickest patients will need a ventilator to breathe for them.

There were to non Corona patients, both of them longest day weaning off ventilators.

Slowly, the rest has been taken over by by Corona.

We've got another hospital is doing urgent cancer, but this place is essentially becoming a huge Corona center.

That's a everyone going into intensive care must wear full protective clothing.

Beds have been created in every available space, so this is an anesthetic room attached to an operating theater.

This operating theatre has now bean repurposed for two intensive care beds.

I mean, it's actually rather overwhelming because it just reinforces the level off threat, the level of preparations that are going on here on just what we are facing.

It's the same layout in 10 operating theatres, leaving just two for emergency surgery.

Yeah, all hospital visits have been stopped only in exceptional circumstances Might a family member of a very sick patient be admitted.

It's the personal course of what's happening to patients, which is just devastating.

Sometimes it's really hard because we can't let all the relatives and to see their loved ones.

So while the patients may not be aware, the relatives are really feeling this.

Like all of us, the doctors and nurses wonder when life will return to normal.

In my family, we've got a whole they booked in August.

We're all kind of I thought that as a date, I don't know if that's a real hope, like every other country, you know?

I know that I'm not suffering like a lot of people are.

The whole country knows it owes an immense debt to NHS frontline staff putting themselves at risk from Corona virus day after day to save lives.

And that was yet another stark illustration from you, their focus of the immense pressure on the staff in that hospital.

Other hospitals to, of course, on the day that we've had the latest official figures.

While 786 deaths from Corona virus the highest daily death toll on each one of those represents a family grieving, so an awful toll.

But those grim figures could actually be much worse.

Had the trend kept rising, it could have bean far worse now on cases.

We had 3634 confirmed Corona virus cases today that is actually down, and they're a tentative signs that that may be part of a trend.

We won't know for a week or so, but it's not accelerating outward listening to quite a lot of the content.

In the official briefing in Downing Street earlier today, there was one very interesting admission, really from one of those taking part about the comparison between the UK and Germany.

Yes, the chief medical officer, Chris Witty, said that the UK is trying to learn the lessons off Germany, which is leading the way on testing.

So we're doing now about 14,000 tests a day, so better than we were.

Germany conduce 500,000 tests a week now.

It was right to prioritize hospital patients on, but we've got to do frontline NHS workers on then anyone with symptoms in the community community because it is mass testing combined with social distancing to bring down the cases which will enable us to get on top of this epidemic and get Britain back to work.

Fergus Once again, many thanks, Fergus said.

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