Mater Hospital urges public only to visit when absolutely necessary due to flu
, INMO industrial relations officer for CUH, said: “This is a crisis situation. Our members on the frontline are describing the situation as ‘horrendous’ for both staff and patients.”
“We are calling for the hospital to fully implement de-escalation policies. This means cancelling electives, stopping non-emergency admissions, and sourcing extra bed capacity from the private and public sector services. This de-escalation should continue next week, until the hospital is stabilised.”
“After much lobbying, we got the HSE to approve recruitment for the posts on December 20th - far too late to make a difference this winter.” The nurses’ trade union said 433 patients were waiting in emergency departments, while 187 were on wards elsewhere in the hospital.The Mater said it was currently experiencing high levels of patients admitted with Influenza..The INMO said on Friday that there were 23 patients at the Mater Hospital who required admission waiting on trolleys in the emergency department.
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