Hospital CEO: Patients and staff cannot go through lockdown 'trauma' again

Margaret Finn, Director of Nursing, Emer Martin, Chief Executive and Emer McLoughlin, Clinical Nurse Manager, St John’s Hospital Limerick. Picture: Arthur Ellis.

The CEO of a hospital which was "almost overwhelmed" by Covid-19 last April is warning that patients, families, and frontline workers cannot be put through something similar again.

CEO of St John’s hospital in Limerick, Emer Martin said that everything possible “must be done to avoid the trauma of last spring.”