Top doctor calls for unity to fight SARS

IRELAND must apply all its health resources together to deal with the SARS threat during the Special Olympics, Ireland’s chief medical officer has said.

Addressing the Oireachtas Health Committee yesterday, Dr Jim Kiely admitted mistakes had been made but stressed that lessons had now been learned. “Lessons need to be learned. I’m confident they will be learned and applied,” he said.

“I think we have the experience, the resources and the capacity to do this. We just need to apply them all at the right time,” he said.