Covid patients transferred across country for ICU beds Updated / Saturday, 23 Jan 2021 19:26 Covid-19 patients have been transferred "hundreds of kilometres" to get to an ICU bed. The Clinical Director of the Mobile Intensive Care Ambulance Service said that 40 critically ill patients have been moved between hospitals this month so far, including 17 this week. Dr David Menzies said the majority of the patients have Covid-19 and were being transferred because there wasn't an intensive care bed available in the hospital they were in. The service is already twice as busy as it was last January, and as hospitals and ICU operate in surge capacity, its role has become even more vital.