GP resigns from Medical Council over 'systemic failures' to protect nursing homes amid Covid-19

A member of the Irish Medical Council has resigned from his position on foot of what he described as the Government’s failure in its “obligations”’ to his patients and to “the people of Ireland” over the course of the coronavirus crisis.

Dr Marcus de Brun, a general practitioner in Rush, north Co Dublin, told health minister Simon Harris in a letter on Saturday that he was delivering his resignation due to the treatment of the residents of a nursing home in north Dublin, who had, according to the doctor, been refused testing for the virus up until April 9.