Public health doctors to discuss new industrial action date at end of January

Dr Ina Kelly, chair of the Irish Medical Organisation’s (IMO) Public Health and Community Health, said the Government was not showing respect to public health doctors. File picture

Public health doctors are to meet at the end of the month to discuss a new date for industrial action after strikes were postponed amid rising Covid-19 cases.

In a ballot in November, 94% of public health doctors voted in favour of strike action following a dispute with the Department of Health over a consultant level contract for professionals in the area.