'War time': Consultant warns areas of healthcare will shut down if Covid surge continues

Dr Catherine Motherway, president of the Intensive Care Society of Ireland, intensive care consultant, ULHG, addresses the HSE weekly operational update on the response to Covid-19, in the UCD O'Brien Centre for Science in UCD, Dublin. Picture: Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland

Areas of the healthcare system are going to have to shut down if Covid numbers continue to surge according to Dr Catherine Motherway 

The intensive care consultant at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) said we are now in “war time” and while medics will continue to try to treat patients, they may not have the same level of care “as in peace time”.