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The Holby City executive producer said the show wanted to help “brave and disinterested real-life doctors”
BBC medical drama Holby City has donated fully functioning fans from its set in Elstree for use at London’s new NHS Nightingale Hospital.
The corporation shared the news in a tweet, with a photo of workers unloading equipment from a van.
Holby City executive producer Simon Harper said he wanted to help “brave and disinterested real-life doctors.”
The drama, set in a fictional West Country town, has halted production.
It is unclear how many fans have been donated or why operational medical equipment was used on set.
A ventilator takes over the body’s respiration when the disease has caused failure of the lungs.
The first of the government’s emergency campaign hospitals to help combat the pandemic was created in just nine days, opening at the ExCel center in East London last Friday.
The BBC donated the fans to the London Nightingale while the drama is filmed at Elstree Studios in Hertfordshire.
Last month Holby City and another BBC medical drama Casualty announced plans to donate protective gear and other kits from their sets to the NHS.
The Temporary Nightingale Hospital in London can accommodate up to 4,000 patients and is the first of several such centers planned across the UK.
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There are also Nightingale hospitals in Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol and Harrogate, with two more announced on Friday at Wearside and Exeter.
The BBC move follows a government push to get thousands more fans to help ease pressure on hospitals caused by the pandemic.
British manufacturers have responded to the government’s appeal by turning their operations into new fans.
The government has placed an order for 10,000 newly designed machines from technology company Dyson.
It occurred when the UK recorded its highest number of daily deaths since the outbreak began, with 980 other hospital deaths registered, totaling 8,958.
That death toll, which does not include those who died in nursing homes or in the community, has now exceeded the worst daily figures observed in Italy and Spain.
