The Irish Blood Transfusion Service has appealed for donations as supplies in some blood groups have fallen to just three days in recent weeks. Its normal policy is to maintain seven days of stocks.
Rates of flu and other non-Covid respiratory viruses have been falling, further easing the pressure on hospitals. On Sunday, there were 237 patients waiting for a bed in hospital emergency departments, according to the Health Service Executive’s TrolleyGar count, well down on the 389 trolleys recorded a week earlier. Sunday’s figure is down about 20 per cent on the same day last year but more than twice the figure recorded two years ago.
Letterkenny University Hospital had the worst overcrowding, with 31 patients on trolleys; there were no patients waiting for admission in University Hospital Waterford; Our Lady of Lourdes, Drogheda; Connolly Hospital; Tullamore hospital; and Our Lady’s Hospital, Navan. The service is also running additional clinics on Sunday, January 29th, in advance of the new public holiday.
The kits had been subject to a temporary zero rate on foot of a derogation by the European Commission but this ended on December 31st.
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