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Bosses at Royal Oldham Hospital preparing to expand ICU capacity

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Dozens of coronavirus patients at the Royal Oldham Hospital are struggling to breathe without medical assistance as bosses reveal they are having to expand their intensive care capacity.Mike Barker, Oldham clinical commissioning group’s chief operating officer told a joint health and council meeting that they are planning on increasing the number of intensive care beds in ICU to cope with growing numbers of seriously ill Covid-19 patients.He said that as of November 10, there were 121 patients in the Oldham Royal Hospital who had tested positive for the virus.Of these, 19 were on mechanical ventilation, 52 were receiving oxygen and a further 16 were being treated with non-invasive Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) to help them.

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