Patient group urges support for INO strike

A PATIENTS’ lobby group is urging employers to let their workers join with hundreds of nurses who will take to the streets tomorrow in a campaign to highlight overcrowding in hospital’s accident and emergency units.

The protest by members of the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) will begin outside the Mater Hospital, Dublin, Cork University Hospital and Roscommon General Hospital at lunchtime. Patients Together is urging employers to give their staff the extra time needed to attend the protests.

The group’s founder and spokesperson, Janette Byrne, said she was one of the hundreds of thousands of people directly affected by the country’s disastrous health service.