Emergency department nurses ask public to support tomorrow’s strike

Tomorrow, Tuesday, members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO), working in the Emergency Department of University Hospital Galway will embark on a two hour strike from 2-4p.m.

The strike is part of a nationwide campaign of protest against years of inhumane, undignified and immoral conditions that we, as professionals and the patients we are accountable to, have endured.

As a group of well educated and highly skilled nurses we have reached the point where our ability to maintain safe standards of care, in the face of horrendous overcrowding, is being compromised, due to inadequate staffing and a building that has been described by so many as being “unfit for purpose”.