Army in need of doctors

THE medical service in the Defence Forces is in a “virtual state of collapse”, the representative body for army officers claimed yesterday.

Army in need of doctors

Officers said there were only 18 doctors in the Defence Forces, far short of the 50 that were needed.

The Representative Association for Commissioned Officers said most doctors being recruited were from abroad, mainly from eastern Europe, and that only one Irish doctor had joined in the last five years.

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