page_title: Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland
section_title: Supplies
hierarchical_section_title: Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland / Health and nursing home care / Supplies
caption_attribution_description: English: Shamrock 9019 to Dublin, taxiing past "Terminal 0" en route to 36L. Obviously Ireland has become extremely anxious - Aer Lingus even wanted to fly 5 flights daily from Beijing to transport medical supply for COVID-19.中文: 爱尔兰航空一架空中客车A330-302（编号EI-EIM）执飞北京至都柏林的EI9019次航班，该航班负责将防疫物资运往爱尔兰
context_page_description: The COVID-19 pandemic in the Republic of Ireland has had far-reaching consequences in the country that go beyond the spread of the disease itself and efforts to quarantine it, including political, cultural, and social implications.
context_section_description: A company making surgical face masks, for the global and local market, increased its production. Listoke Distillery in Drogheda (east of Ireland, north of Dublin) was repurposed to produce hand sanitiser. Moville-based clothing company Moville Clothing—which usually makes robes for barristers and clerics—began making surgical scrubs, with the assistance of donations from the public (organised by designer Edel McBride, who was prompted by annoyance at hearing that healthcare workers had to buy their own sanitary clothing). Public libraries lent their 3D printers to the making of face shields for healthcare workers. Engineers from Trinity College Dublin also brought several 3D printers to their houses to make face shields. The Irish Journal of Medical Science accepted a design for a low-cost facemask, not intended to replace PPE but as a "last resort".
  In mid-March, Irish technology company Cliffrun Health—alongside staff at the Mater Hospital—launched a first of its kind system in which data such as blood pressure and temperature would be sent from a COVID-19 patient who had sent home to staff at the hospital, thus freeing beds for the more critically ill. Medical device company, the Inspire Team (based at the university in Galway), designed a system to enable for the first time the safe treatment of two patients with one ventilator; the system was made available for export internationally. Forklift manufacturer, Combilift (based in the north midlands town of Monaghan), designed a Combi-Ventilate splitter device intended to allow two patients to be treated together while also enabling medical professionals to control each person individually. Previously, the Health Service Executive (HSE) had begun stocking up on ventilators in anticipation of a possible surge in respiratory distress cases from the virus. However, in April, the Swords-based pharmaceutical service firm Narooma Ltd sued the HSE at the High Court over a contract breach, stating that a deal to purchase ventilators on behalf of the HSE and deliver them from the Far East in three shipments between 20 April and 15 May had been agreed at the close of March, but that the HSE had not honoured this and had not paid Narooma any of the money it was owed.
  In mid-April, a spokesperson for Moon Jae-in disclosed that Bono had written to the President of South Korea asking for items including personal protective equipment (PPE) and diagnostic kits which he would pay for on behalf of Ireland.
  Unsuitable PPE imported from China, such as gowns which did not cover the arms of their wearers, was delivered to COVID-19 testing centres, hospitals and ambulance units in Dublin, Donegal, Sligo, Galway and Limerick in late March and early April. Cork University Hospital's infectious disease unit began sending KN95 facemasks imported from China to Kinsale Community School, where students there were able to repair them and send them back to the hospital for use by staff. The HSE called Sullane Valley Manufacturing to ask if they could mend Cork University Hospital's supply of gowns; workers with the Cork-based fabric company attached hook-and-loop fasteners (i.e. velcro) instead of zippers, removed some legs and attached the legs to the sleeves of the gowns.
  On 10 June, the world's largest aircraft landed at Shannon Airport with a consignment of PPE imported from China for the Health Service Executive (HSE). The consignment of 900,000 medical gowns of PPE is the largest ever ordered by Ireland, and will last 12.5 days under the current levels of demand.
caption: Aer Lingus began flying to Beijing in late March 2020 with their A330-300 fleet to collect personal protective equipment (PPE) for Irish healthcare workers.[182]
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