Yet Another Contribution From The Worlds No2 Climate Responder....

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58928932
....someone tell Greta!

[Mamyalynne]

Are you unable to contact her?

I should imagine she's very impressed by it.

[dave50]

How much is all this costing?

[Mozz71]

How is this a bad thing?

[Mamyalynne]

//The distinctive curvature of Orkney's £65m Balfour hospital is most apparent from above.//

It is an amazing building.

[douglas9401]

£65 million.

Quite the bargain in this day and age.

[davebro]

probably quite expensive if costed per bed?

[Mozz71]

Seems like it's on the lower end of average cost for a new hospital.

https://www.fixr.com/costs/build-hospital#:~:text=This%20translates%20to%20a%20total%20cost%20of%20between,and%20emergency%20rooms%2C%20and%20space%20for%20120%20beds.

[maggiebee]

Ninewells Hospital in Dundee cost £25 million to build in 1974. Reckon this is a bargain in 2019.

[douglas9401]

Even more of a bargain when you consider the £35 million shelled out to buy off the PFI parking scam from the '90s.

[douglas9401]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-58306354

[sanmac]

Only 49 patient beds in that huge building?

[bobbinwales]

But theres probably offices for 50 managers aswell sanmac.

[Mamyalynne]

NHS Orkney serves a population of around 21,349, a larger Hospital would have been unnecessary.

[sanmac]

As long as the other 21,300 don't become unwell or pregnant.

[dave50]

As long as this eco virtue signalling isn't more expensive than a conventional hospital.

[sanmac]

...some of the other...

[Mamyalynne]

Obviously, if the entire population of Orkney needed hospitalising at once they couldn't cope but then I doubt any hospital could.
In the large majority of cases new Mums and babies go home after a few hours.

I am guessing that some figures were scribbled on a piece of paper first.

[ToraToraTora]

mozz: "How is this a bad thing? " - who said it was a bad thing? It's a good thing and underlines our commitment and yet another reason why Greta should go and haunt somewhere like China.

[Gromit]

I wonder if the hospital treats sad old men with an unhealthy obsession with an 18 year old girl?

[douglas9401]

That's done elsewhere in the island group, Gromit, Hoy to be specific.