Emergency department at Cork University Hospital described as ‘crowded beyond recognition’
“We would be naive not to expect very significant pressures,” the HSE’s chief operations officer Damian McCallion said.
Taoiseach Leo Varadkar met senior health service officials on Friday to discuss the pressures arising due to the surge. He later told reporters that the HSE should “deploy all resources available” to meet the challenge. GP services were described as being “flat out” by Dr Mel Bates, medical director of the Northdoc service in Dublin, who said family doctors were struggling to cope with the “horrific” levels of “unexpected demand” seen in recent weeks. “The under-16s are taking up 50 per cent of the appointments …The system is falling over” he said.
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