Hospital workers asked to join lunchtime A&E protests

HOSPITAL workers including doctors have been asked to join nurses in their lunchtime protests to highlight ongoing chaos in the country’s accident and emergency units.

The protests, which get underway next week at Beaumont Hospital in Dublin and Wexford General Hospital, will continue every Tuesday and Thursday throughout April.

Organisers of the protests, the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO), said they had written to ICTU, IMPACT, the ATGWU and the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) unions to ask for support from their health workers.