'Please help' — HSE appeal as 7,000 healthcare workers absent from Covid frontline

The chief operations officer of the HSE, Anne O’Connor, has called on anyone who can help frontline workers get to work to do so.

Responding to a question about absenteeism in the health service on RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland, Ms O’Connor said that between acute hospitals, support services and community services there were over 7,000 workers absent because of Covid-19.