HSE needs to urgently address ICU bed shortage, says consultant

Even before Covid the health care system was “critically short” of intensive care beds “at the best of times.” 

Emergency medicine consultant Dr Fergal Hickey has warned that the HSE needs to urgently address the issue of the shortage of intensive care beds rather than trying to reassure people that “there isn’t a problem.” 

Even before Covid the health care system was “critically short” of intensive care beds “at the best of times.”