In Pictures: Abu Dhabi gives land to build UK NHS Hospital

NHS Nightingale is the first of several temporary hospitals being set up.

Workers and building contractors arrive at the ExCeL London exhibition centre in east London. NHS Nightingale field hospital has been created to help with the COVID-19 pandemic. In a sign of an expected rise in coronavirus cases, a new 4,000-bed field hospital is being set up at the giant ExCeL exhibition centre in east London.

Members of Britain's armed forces arrive at the ExCeL London exhibition centre in London.

NHS Nightingale Hospital@ExCeLLondon is ready to receive patients next week.

A hospital bed and respirator at ExCel London, seen inside during its conversion into the temporary NHS Nightingale Hospital.

A man works at ExCel London. The task of boosting critical care capacity has been under way since the health service declared an emergency at the end of January.

Soldiers and private contractors work at ExCel London. The facility was launched in collaboration with British public health authorities. ExCel belongs to Abu Dhabi National Exhibitions Company (ADNEC), a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi Developmental Holding Company (ADQ), owned by Abu Dhabi government.

NHS England's Chief Executive Simon Stevens speaks with NHS staff at ExCel London, during its conversion into the temporary NHS Nightingale Hospital.

A view of a ward, at the ExCel centre.

Paramedics and ambulances are seen outside the Excel Centre, London while it is being prepared to become the NHS Nightingale Hospital.

Paramedics carry oxygen tanks from a storage unit the ExCel center.

Paramedics and ambulance personnel get instructions from a command unit outside the ExCel center.