Quote:01 April 2020
Victoria’s health system will receive a massive $1.3 billion injection to quickly establish an extra 4,000 ICU beds as we respond to the coronavirus pandemic and protect Victorian lives.

Premier Daniel Andrews and Minister for Health Jenny Mikakos announced the boost, which will secure the ICU equipment, staff and space we need to meet the expected surge in case load at the peak of the pandemic.

At present, Victoria’s public and private health services have approximately 450 fully equipped and staffed ICU beds, but we know that won’t be nearly enough if the spread of the coronavirus continues.

Quote:Since last April Victoria has brought about 1600 new ICU and critical care beds online as part of a $1.3 billion healthcare investment, tripling the state’s capacity and doubling it in regional and rural areas. The funding included hospital building upgrades, ventilation improvements and critical care equipment purchases.

A new ICU unit has been built at Casey Hospital but much of the additional capacity has been found within the public health system by upgrading beds to be able to cater for critically-ill patients.

“Throughout the pandemic, health services across the globe have been overwhelmed by COVID-19 outbreaks. Luckily no health system in Australia has experienced this. We never wanted to see scenes like that repeated in Victoria,” a government spokesman said.

“Our unprecedented investment tripled Victoria’s ICU capacity with the ability to scale up even further [to 4000 beds] if required.

(09-02-2021, 11:04 PM)Mav link Wrote:You’re right: we can’t continue to protect the unvaccinated. It’s bad luck for them that they can’t rely upon herd immunity to protect them. Bring in vaccine passports and send them to the back of the queue if they catch Covid and then we can open up and improve the mental health of the youth.

(09-02-2021, 11:22 PM)flyboy77 link Wrote:By the by, did Dan stick to his word? We all know the answer...

https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/huge-expansion-our-health-system-fight-coronavirus

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/as-world-watched-new-york-and-milan-victoria-tripled-icu-capacity-to-avoid-covid-nightmare-20210717-p58akm.html

Note to bed wetters - there are currently 20 (twenty) CV19 ICU cases in Victoria (the whole bloody State).

https://www.health.gov.au/news/health-alerts/novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert/coronavirus-covid-19-case-numbers-and-statistics#cases-admitted-to-hospital

(09-03-2021, 12:44 AM)shawny link Wrote:The BS media spin in this is out of control. Scare mongering with numbers that suit their narrative is beyond belief.

Hospital icu will be overrun yet only 20 cases in ICU across every hospital in the whole state!

This virus is dangerous, this variant attacks the young and is deadly……..  thousands of cases yet only 3 Deaths in 10 months.

Yet leaders refuse to acknowledge the souring  health rates, costs to the economy that out great grand children will be left to repay and unprecedented suicides.

And all this in the strictest and longest running lockdown in the WORLD!!

But the good news is according to Dan once we get to 80% vaccinated he will remove lockdowns (see Israel) .

Yeah that makes perfect sense.

We are a laughing stock.