Cork student who volunteered on frontline of Covid-19 pandemic wins scholarship

Final year UCC medical student assisted in CUH's busy Emergency Department

Amy Brennan, who has won a Quercus scholarship, in recognition of her work on the frontline during the pandemic. 

A medical student, who began battling Covid-19 on the frontline last year as a volunteer at Cork University Hospital (CUH), is to receive a scholarship from her university in recognition of her achievements.

Amy Brennan, a final-year medical student at University College Cork (UCC), began volunteering in the hospital’s busy emergency department last March as the Covid-19 pandemic began to take hold.