Hospital's new negative pressure rooms complete

AMU nursing staff Kate Jacobs, Ebonie Canning, Megan Doyle and Robyn Hayes.

As frontline staff continue to rise to the challenges of COVID-19, the addition of nine new negative pressure isolation rooms at the Launceston General Hospital is expected to make a big difference.

Opened last month, the beds are a welcome asset for the Acute Medical Unit which has served as the hospital’s specialist COVID-19 ward since the start of the pandemic.

An integral part of the LGH’s COVID frontline, the new negative pressure rooms will assist in the safe management of patients with COVID-19 and other respiratory illnesses and restores the AMU to full bed capacity.

The upgrades are expected to assist LGH staff in managing the current winter pressures and the ongoing presence of COVID-19 in the community.