THE frontline critical care team at IRH who faced a huge tide of coronavirus patients struggling to breathe have today been hailed as heroes for defying all the odds to save lives. The Tele has been taken behind the scenes at the Covid-19 unit at the hospital, which was one of the first in the country to feel the full impact of the virus in the early days of the pandemic It had THREE times the number of patients needing critical care compared with normal times. Now leading NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde health board clinicians have hailed the work staff did, as it is revealed that Inverclyde Royal s experience helped shape practices when the second wave arrived.