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28th April 2023
01:12pm BST
Naas General Hospital will get a new 12 single-room modular unit and the Coombe Women's Hospital will receive one new bed as part of an upgrade to St Patrick's Ward.
According to a recent estimate published by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), the number of inpatient beds added is lower than expected as it originally said 1,000 new beds are needed in addition to 300 given each year.
Last week, a new 98 bed wing has opened at the Mater Hospital in Dublin.
The €103m Rock Wing now sees an additional 16 new intensive care unit beds and a new National Isolation Unit on top of the beds.
Each room is a single room and patients will be given the go-ahead to be brought in by the end of next month following systems tests.
The new National Isolation Unit is set to be used for major infectious disease cases and is planning to be used in the event of another pandemic.
The new nine storey building is set to treat around 5,000 patients each year and took the last two years to build following Covid-19 emergency legislation.
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