Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 29 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Update on Testing and Tracing and Rising Incidence in the State

Ms Anne O'Connor:

I would like to add to that. Our sites are currently reactivating into the surge panels that Mr. Reid referenced there. It is important to note that we have beds that were used a critical care beds, but they are not established as critical care beds within proper units. We are trying to build the more long-term sustainable critical care capacity and also ensure that our actual surge capacity is there so that each site has its surge capacity which it can reactivate if it is needed. We do not want to have staff who are highly trained in critical care not working anywhere else. The training of all these staff has been ongoing to maintain their skills in the event of a surge, but we are not there yet.

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