Call to scale down all non-emergency care as medical staff 'exhausted' amid Covid surge

'Our fragile health services are being held together at the moment by an exhausted nursing workforce,' said IMHO general secretary, Phil Ní Shéaghdha. File picture: Gareth Chaney/Collins

The main hospital workers’ union has again called for all non-emergency care in Irish hospitals to be scaled down amid the surge in cases of Omicron Covid-19.

“Our fragile health services are being held together at the moment by an exhausted nursing workforce who are experiencing high levels of burnout,” Phil Ní Shéaghdha, general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, said: