Silence from Department of Health as public health doctors prepare for strike 

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly. It is understood nobody from his department has contacted the IMO to try to avert the strike. Picture: Sasko Lazarov/RollingNews.ie

The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has had no contact from the Department of Health in relation to a planned public health doctors' strike in January.

The country’s 91 specialists of public health medicine are taking strike action in January as part of their 17-year battle for consultant status and contracts.