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900 ventilators ordered for use in Covid-19 pandemic

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The Health Service Executive has said that 900 new ventilators have been ordered for use with patients with Covid-19 and some of those will be delivered by the end of the month.

That is in addition to the 1,229 machines currently available in the country. Following concerns expressed by senior doctors about the availability of intensive care unit beds (ICU), the HSE told RTÉ's Prime Time there is a current capacity of 255 ICU beds in the country, while a further 51 critical care beds have been approved by Government.

A study commissioned by the HSE more than a decade ago recommended more than 500 intensive care beds were needed. On Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), the HSE said there are challenges in a volatile market, with export bans

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