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The first 140 healthcare beds in the external
hospital at Stockholmsmässan have been completed and are ready
to be inspected and put to use at 11:00 on Wednesday. Last week,
200 employees from Stockholmsmässan began building together with
Region Stockholm and Locum. Today Stockholmsmässan is gearing up
with an additional 50 people to ensure that an additional 600
beds will be ready for Easter. The work is being conducted in a
close cooperation between Region Stockholm, Locum, the Swedish
Armed Forces and Stockholmsmässan, which is building the actual
facility.
“We want to support society in every possible way and be able to
temporarily adjust. We have the expertise and the strength to
build this in parts of Stockholmsmässan’s facility and the work
is now moving ahead incredibly fast,” says Christian Clemens,
CEO at Stockholmsmässan.
The work to build the external hospital in parts of the
Stockholmsmässan exhibition facility is taking place in close
cooperation with Region Stockholm, Locum and Stockholmsmässan –
a task that requires hundreds of participants from different
areas of expertise. From the Stockholmsmässan alone, 200 people
have been working intensely to prepare the field hospital, and
on Monday an additional 50 people were on the site. The majority
of these people are from Stockholmsmässan, but they also include
our contractors and suppliers who have stepped in to support
this intensive work.
“Stockholmsmässan’s work in this complex project includes all
those professions and contractors who normally supply our
regular events. It is fantastic to experience such participation
and the engagement that both employees and partners are showing
in this tough situation,” says Rikard Skärebo, production
manager at Stockholmsmässan and coordinator for the field
hospital.
Together with Stockholmsmässan’s contractors, everything is
being supplied for electricity, plumbing, water, construction
and painting, information materials and signs, waste management
as well as the distribution of consumables. Stockholmsmässan is
also providing physical security on the site. The strategy for
the construction of the external hospital emerged in frequent
meetings between the three partners, Stockholmsmässan, Region
Stockholm – and Locum, whose expertise in this area has been
crucial. Locum is responsible for deliveries of oxygen, that is,
medical gas.
“We also have suppliers who helped us to sweep the market for
specific products that we needed and have now received thanks to
several of our suppliers’ customers who have allowed our orders
to move ahead in the production queue. To provide some
understanding of the scope of this project, the hospital today
has seven thousand electrical outlets, 50 kilometres of cable
and more than six kilometres of exhibition passageways. This
really is a joint effort that many people can be proud of,” says
Skärebo.
“At Stockholmsmässan we are currently working with a focus to
carry out all of our autumn events, while following the
authorities’ recommendations and the government’s decision to
limit public gatherings. It is very important for society as a
whole that those companies which can continue to engage in
business do so, while adapting to the prevailing circumstances,”
Clemens concludes.
Release: Stockholmsmässan