Work on hospital's new two-storey building ongoing
This aerial photograph shows the scale of work taking place to build a new facility at a Black Country Hospital.
The Acute Medical Unit at Russells Hall Hospital, in Dudley, will treat seriously unwell patients and help to reduce winter pressures on health services.
Construction work is ongoing to complete facility.
The drone shot, taken by the Express & Star's chief photographer Tim Thursfield, shows a hive of activity taking place outside the front of the gleaming-white main building.
The project will see a new facility built from the ground up consisting of a two-storey modular building.
The Dudley NHS Trust received £3 million from the Government for the project.
With hospital resources set to be placed under added pressure this winter, due to seasonal flu and Covid-19, the new facility will be a welcome addition to the hospital once construction work is complete.
It is anticipated the site will partially open by early next year.
A small section of land, which can be seen from High Street, Pensnett, now resembles a building site.
Several modular buildings have been installed while the general area, where the new department will be located, has been closed off with temporary blue fencing.
Within the construction site itself are several diggers which are making holes in the ground ahead of the building's foundations being built.
