 It is the main emergency and accident centre for that area, and it is ill-equipped to provide the kind of services which it is called upon to provide.The major problem with the hospital is that the major acute wards are situated in nissen huts, built in the early 1940s for the treatment of wounded service men who at that time were taken to what was then a cottage hospital on the outskirts of Liverpool.Those nissen huts were built with a temporary life of about 10 years.