Isambard Kingdom Brunel: Designer of the first Nightingale hospital
SEVEN ‘Nightingale hospitals’have been set up by the Government to treat Covid-19 patients during the pandemic. However, the concept can be traced back to the Crimean War – and a prefabricated emergency hospital designed by none other than GWR engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
Modern nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, who led a team of volunteer nurses at the British military hospital at the Selimiye Barracks in Scutari (modern Üsküdar) near Constantinople (Istanbul), was appalled at the lack of facilities to treat
