EU Development Fund provided €100m in emergency PPE for Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal
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Health service providers across Leitrim, Sligo and Donegal were able to secure vital Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) for health workers after the Northern and Western region received €100m from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).
The PPE helped to protect frontline staff from the Covid-19 virus in North West-based hospitals, acute and primary care settings, testing centres, assessment hubs and residential care settings.
Before COVID-19, few workers needed to wear PPE and it was relatively straight forward to acquire. But from the moment the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared the emergency in 2020, there was an immediate global surge in the demand for PPE and the HSE faced the challenge in competing globally to safeguard and secure steady supplies.