We must 'redouble our efforts' to ease pressure on health care system this winter

Dr Mick Molloy called for more consultants to be appointed to help with the flow of patients through hospitals.

Infectious Diseases consultant Dr Eoghan de Barra has warned that the pressure on the health care system this winter will be “like the flu times 10”.

The health service will cope, but it will be difficult, he told Newstalk Breakfast.