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SD Health Officials Doing Inventory of Hospital Beds

SD Health Officials Doing Inventory of Hospital Beds

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State officials are coordinating with health care providers on the number of hospital beds available and the number that could be quickly added.

Health Department Secretary Kim Malsam-Rysdon says they are working on expansion plans…

Malsam-Rysdon says they also need to identify additional equipment that would be needed….

Malsam-Rysdon says the need for additional hospital beds will be determined by how widely the coronavirus spreads…

The state currently has about one hundred Intensive Care Unit hospital beds.

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