Harney urged to witness staff’s hygiene struggle

COME to Kerry General Hospital and see how staff struggle to maintain a safe level of hygiene in overcrowded conditions, Tánaiste and Health Minister Mary Harney was urged yesterday.

Dr Mary McCaffrey, vice president of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA), works as a consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at the Tralee hospital.

She said she and her medical colleagues were deeply upset when Ms Harney insisted last Friday that resources have nothing to do with hospital hygiene.