INMO calls for better hospital security after increase in assaults

Gardaí are currently investigating an incident in which Joe McCarron appears to have been encouraged to leave Letterkenny University Hospital, but died a week later.

The general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) Phil Ní Sheaghdha has called for better security in hospitals because of an increase in assaults and verbal abuse.

Speaking to RTÉ's Today with Claire Byrne, Ms Ní Sheaghdha said the recent incident in a Letterkenny hospital where a patient was encouraged to leave despite being very ill with Covid-19 highlighted the issues being faced by healthcare workers.