Healthcare professionals warn of 'unimaginable' winter in Irish hospitals

Healthcare professionals warn of 'unimaginable' winter in Irish hospitals

'Social distancing isn't possible with trolleys lining the corridors,' says INMO general secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha.

Thousands of new beds and hundreds of new staff to fill vacant posts are the "minimum" needed to handle the forthcoming winter in Irish hospitals, healthcare professionals have warned.

It comes as hundreds of patients wait for beds and the number of Covid-19 patients who require hospitalisation increases.

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