A 68-bed field hospital has been established at the University of Limerick's Sports Arena to help increase bed capacity at the region's overcrowded acute hospital.
The Intermediate Care Facility (ICF) is a fully-equipped Model One hospital unit which will provide care for patients who are ready to be discharged from the acute hospitals in the UL hospital's group, but who need extra recovery or rehabilitation time before going home or transferred to a nursing home.
It can also cater for Covid-19 patients, once they are free of the infection, but need extra nursing and medical care. The 68-bed facility has the capacity to increase 84 beds and is laid out in partitioned wards, each with a nurses' station, clinical treatment and physiotherapy