Staff shortage ‘piling pressure on junior doctors’

A SHORTAGE of doctors and nurses has made Kerry General Hospital (KGH) the most understaffed accident and emergency unit in the country.

The unit’s only A&E consultant, Dr Seán O’Rourke, warned that too much pressure is being placed on the units’ junior doctors.

The issue was also raised in the Dáil by Fine Gael TD, Jimmy Deenihan who said the junior doctors’ workload far exceeded Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland guidelines.