Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 November 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

HSE Winter Plan: HSE

Photo of Cathal CroweCathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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We saw footage on our TV screens in the springtime from Bergamo where ventilator machines had to be moved from patient to patient. Ventilators became a very fluid machine that would be trucked down a corridor to get a patient breathing again. What is our capacity specifically on those machines? Has it increased significantly?