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Topic: COVID-19

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Getinge introduces new planning solution to bring down surgery backlogs

COVID-19 could potentially lead to 30 million cancelled or postponed surgeries worldwide in 2020[1]. Clearing the backlog will be a worldwide priority that is estimated to take a full year – even if hospitals increase their daily number of surgeries performed by 20%. In the effort to support, Getinge now launches Torin OptimalQ, an efficient planning tool for prioritizing the surgical wait list caused by COVID-19.

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Embassy of Sweden in Canberra pays tribute to Getinge across Australia and New Zealand

Embassy of Sweden in Canberra have been focusing on the positive - each day they have posted to social media, stories within their business community, of how Covid-19 has had an effect, bringing the best out of the situation.

Today we share Getinge's story – “It has been a challenging few months in Australia learning to live with Covid-19 and dealing with a new normal”. “In response we have provided Ventilators across New Zealand and most of Australia. Throughout this time installation has taken place onsite our sales and service team’s working closely with Hospital BioMed’s and Clinicians.

Similarly, our Clinical Applications Specialists have been working hard to provide face to face training as well as developing a suite of video resources that can be directly accessed by the clinicians at the point of care” - Allan Rowan, Director of Sales for ACT.

Allan Rowan was a member of the “ICU working group” a regular roundtable with other medical device manufacturers/suppliers, the Minister of Industry, Science and Technology and other key government stakeholders in managing and prioritising supply during Covid-19.

Ventilation solutions has been continuous supplied to Australian and New Zealand Government and private hospital groups and manufacturing has increased with 160% in the last year. #COVID19 #TeamSwedenAus #SACCwebinar Swedish Australian Chamber of Commerce

 

The Embassy of Sweden have posted Getinge's contribution on:

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/embassyofswedenincanberra/posts/1591096987719168 

Twitter; https://twitter.com/SwedeninOZ/status/1273062257040244738 

LinkedIn; https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6679207063064719360

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Managing the wellbeing of our employees, our customers and the patients we support each day

Right now, we at Getinge are doing our utmost to support the courageous clinicians around the world, in their fight against the global pandemic, COVID-19. With the challenges that we are all experiencing with the COVID-19 pandemic, we appreciate that this has put new challenges in place for you and your colleagues. Getinge reassures you that during this time we have put in place measures and have ongoing contingency plans to enable us to continue to support and assist you, essentially as close to normal business as possible.

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