Healthcare worker challenges HSE refusal to allow her work from home

The woman, who had worked for 20 years as a public health worker, had attended her GP suffering from Covid-based anxiety and later she got the support of two consultants, her endocrinologist and her cardiac consultant, for her to work from home. File photo

A healthcare worker in a hospital who sought to work from home because she said her health made her highly vulnerable to Covid has brought a High Court challenge over how the decision to refuse to allow her "cocoon" was taken.

The woman is in her 60s, suffers from uncontrolled Type 1 Diabetes, depression and has received treatment for cancer, among other things. She has difficulties wearing a mask because her treatment had resulted in seepage from her septum and her immune system was compromised, she says.