CEO claims PPE has been diverted away from care homes to hospitals

Tadhg Daly, chief executive officer with Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI).

The head of the main representative body for nursing homes in Ireland has claimed that vital personal protective equipment (PPE) necessary in the battle against Covid-19 has been diverted in recent times away from care homes to hospitals.

Tadhg Daly, chief executive officer with Nursing Homes Ireland (NHI), which represents 390 of Ireland’s 440 homes, said that “many of our members have lines of supply” for PPE, but that because of “the national effort” towards combating the coronavirus much of that equipment had been delivered instead to acute hospitals.