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Parliamentary Questions


Question On Notice No. 288 asked in the Legislative Council on 9 September 2021 by Hon Steve Martin

Question Directed to the: Minister for Mental Health representing the Minister for Health
Parliament: 41 Session: 1


Question

I refer to the State Government's preparation for COVID-19, and I ask:
(a) have any additional ventilators been purchased;
(b) if yes to (a), how much did each cost, when were they purchased and which hospitals were they allocated to;
(c) how many ventilators does the Department of Health have in total across all the hospitals and health campuses; and
(d) of those in (c), how many are located at metropolitan and country locations?

Answered on 13 October 2021

I thank the Honourable Member for some notice of the question.

(a) Yes, 363 ventilators were purchased as part of COVID-19 preparations.

(b) Please refer to table for the cost of each ventilator and the purchase date. The equipment is centrally stored with a commissioning program to ensure equipment is ready for deployment to Intensive Care Unit (ICU) Departments at WA hospitals in the event of a ventilated bed space surge. I seek leave to have the table incorporated into Hansard.

 

Ventilator Model

Unit Cost (excl. GST)

Purchase Date

Hamilton T1

$32,269.00

March 2020

Puritan Bennett [PB] 840

$42,000.00

April 2020

Mindray SV800

$63,050.00

March 2020

Hamilton C1

$74,744.50

April 2020

BD Carefusion VELA RC1023

$59,143.00

April 2020

Mindray SynoVent E3

$41,684.00

April 2020

Mindray SynoVent E5

$51,028.00

April 2020

Vyaire BellaVista 1000

$73,077.00

April 2020

GE R860

$86,651.00

April 2020

Getinge Maquet (Servo-s)

$68,979.00

April 2020

Getinge Maquet (Servo-i)

$88,651.00

April 2020

 

(c) 271 ventilators with the rest ready for deployment in the event of an ICU surge.

 

(d) 219 ventilators located at metropolitan locations, 52 located at country locations