Covid-19 crisis should spark health investment programme of 'historic proportions' - IMO

The Covid-19 crisis must lead to an investment programme in the country’s health services of “historic proportions”, according to the President of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

Dr Padraig McGarry was speaking to mark the IMO's planned AGM, which was scheduled to take place this weekend in Killarney, but was postponed due to the Covid-19 outbreak. He said it is timely that when doctors would have been debating health issues, the fragility of those services is exposed like never before.