IMO accused of exaggerating pay claim

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin has accused the Irish Medical Organisation of exaggerating their pay claims for senior public health doctors.

And the Department of Health refused to respond to reports that a senior doctor or nurse had contracted hepatitis B. The department denied last night that patients could be exposed to infection and such a medical emergency could not be handled due to the strike.

Fine Gael health spokesperson Olivia Mitchell claimed a frontline health professional had been diagnosed with hepatitis B.