Popular family holiday resort Bluestone will soon be transformed into a recovery centre for people recovering from coronavirus.
The site is the latest place to offer up its facilities for additional hospital beds after it shut its doors to holidaymakers at the weekend.
The Pembrokeshire resort will offer its extensive facilities, as well as open spaces, to help treat those in need and those recovering from the virus.
A Bluestone spokesman said it was joining the local, regional, and national effort to do "everything possible" to prepare for the unfolding outbreak.
Carmarthenshire council is already working with Hywel Dda University Health Board (UHB) to put extra beds at Parc y Scarlets, the Selwyn Samuel Centre in Llanelli and Carmarthen Leisure Centre.
The extra beds at Bluestone will be especially for those people in Pembrokeshire and are part of measures being coordinated by Pembrokeshire council and Hywel Dda UHB.
Members of the Bluestone team will continue to provide security and management of some of the facilities on the site while the health board will manage the addition of medical resources and the council will lead work. There are plans to get the facility up and running for those in need as soon as possible.
Doctor Phil Kloer, medical director and deputy chief executive at Hywel Dda, said: “We have followed the situation in Italy closely to learn where possible and to help our planning. Our European colleagues have provided feedback that patient flow and throughput is a critical factor in response to Covid-19 pressures.
"Delivering these additional beds for patients will therefore be essential to help us manage patient flow over the coming weeks. We are extremely grateful for all of the support that we are receiving from Bluestone and Pembrokeshire county council to help make this happen and I am confident this facility will offer a good environment in which our patients can recover.”
Bluestone chief executive William McNamara said: “We are living and operating in previously unimaginable circumstances. It is moments like these that it’s vital we come together to support each other – as family, as friends and as a community.
“It is right that Bluestone is utilised in this time of great national need. We all want – and need – to do whatever we can to make a difference and contribute to tackling the unfolding coronavirus emergency.
“Our thoughts and deepest sympathies are with those who are personally affected by this unfolding situation.”
Council leader David Simpson said he was "grateful" to Bluestone for making the site available. He added: "The facilities are going to provide significant additional resources to the local area as we battle the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.
“I know that this is an uncertain and worrying time for residents across Pembrokeshire and Hywel Dda. The community is doing a truly heartening job of pulling together – and we will get through this together.”
