Special payment to HSE staff with long covid extended to March

'Healthcare workers with long covid went to work and contracted covid when there were very few protections available to them. Their illness should be treated as nothing less than a workplace injury,' The INMO said. File picture: Victoria Jones/PA Wire

More than 140 HSE staff with long covid have had special payments extended until March, giving them a further chance to recover.

The Special Leave with Pay for staff unable to work due to long covid had been due to end in June, then was extended to this week and now extended again for another five months.