INO: Children's lives at risk due to nurse shortage

The Irish Nurses Organisation claims children's lives are being put at risk due to a shortage of paediatric staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

INO: Children's lives at risk due to nurse shortage

The Irish Nurses Organisation claims children's lives are being put at risk due to a shortage of paediatric staff at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda.

The organisation says it is only a matter of time before a child dies because there are just four specially-trained paediatric nurses in the hospital's A&E unit.

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