Irish Examiner View: Health provision always one beat behind the band

The HSE still seems to be off tempo in Covid’s wake.

The emergency department at University Hospital, Limerick. Picture: Brendan Gleeson

The long shadow cast by the Covid-19 pandemic upon health service provision points daily to systems which, if not yet totally broken, are seriously ruptured.

At its most visible, we witness expert teams sent into hospitals such as Limerick to manage the consequences of the long-lasting trolley crisis, a solution ordered by Health Minister Stephen Donnelly, who said he was “very concerned”. The scenes are described as “chaos” by staff members.