Approval has been granted to complete a temporary extension to the Emergency Department to provide additional accommodation, in the first instance related to Covid requirements. The Temporary ED project and associate works will also service as an enabling works project for the proposed permanent ED by helping to free up the site required for the proposed new block.
The accommodation includes segregated waiting areas, segregated treatment areas, isolation rooms, additional resuscitation spaces and additional support accommodation to take account of new requirements to treat Covid-19 patients and improved Infection Control and Prevention requirements for ED. External works in support of this temporary accommodation includes enabling works by way of roads and car-park reconfigurations, utilities and drainage diversions, all to the east of the Main Block of University Hospital Galway.
The Temporary Emergency Department extension building will be single storey, with a rooftop plant room and will be connected to the main hospital block at the existing Emergency Department entrance. Site works have been underway for some time, and it is expected that this project will be completed in Q2 2022.
