A consultant in public health said there are high numbers of different types of infection at the same time
The concern is that this will place even further pressure on University Hospital Limerick, which has the most overcrowded emergency department in the country
She said that"what's unique about this year is that we're having all these seasons of these different infections at the same time, so normally there will be different patterns and there will be a bit of staggering. Dr Casey said there is pressure on the capacity of hospitals to cope and the main challenges are more people attending GPs and more people attending hospital emergency departments too.
Dr Casey said that all those things combined together"make it very tricky now" for the health system. Dr Casey said that as people are mixing more in group settings there are more opportunities to get infected.
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