Parents of sick children 'have threatened to stab nurses'

INMO general secretary Phil Ni Sheaghdha: 'Assaults on midwives escalated during the pandemic.'

Nurses have been spat at, had doors kicked in on them, and had threats they will be stabbed by patients and parents of sick children, the Oireachtas Health Committee heard on Wednesday.

Figures presented by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), indicate more than 10 nurses are assaulted every day with reports of 5,593 assaults between January 2021 and October of last year.