Legislative Council - Fifty-Fourth Parliament, Second Session (54-2)
2020-03-24 Daily Xml

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Coronavirus

The Hon. C.M. SCRIVEN (15:29): Further supplementary: are new ICU beds being created, and, if so, at this stage where will they be and what will the numbers be at each location?

The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:29): The challenge in terms of ICU will not be so much the beds but the workforce to run them, so the major effort in relation to building our ICU capacity is actually expanding and upskilling our workforce to be able to man the beds as they are needed.