Residents to be moved out of Kerry nursing home where eight died following Covid-19 outbreak

The HSE says it is no longer 'sustainable' for it to keep running the home.
Residents to be moved out of Kerry nursing home where eight died following Covid-19 outbreak

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The HSE is to start moving residents out of a Kerry nursing home at the centre of a Covid-19 outbreak which has claimed eight lives as it says it is no longer “sustainable” for it to keep running the home.

The agency was brought in to run Oaklands Nursing Home in Derry, Listowel last Thursday after Hiqa cancelled its registration certificate. The action was taken after the first six residents died.

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