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)
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Purchase Date
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Hamilton T1
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$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