Increasing Covid levels causing 'significant and unrelenting pressure' on health service, says HSE chief | JOE.ie

Reid stated that a"significant number" of Covid-19 patients in hospital are receiving advanced respiratory support outside of intensive care.Reid also stressed that though Covid-19 figures may be lower than their January peak, the situation is different as back then, the health service was"just treating urgent care and Covid patients".

On how the health service was currently coping, he said:"We're meeting the Covid demands that come at us but we're not meeting the demands that we want to get to... which is a lot of our elective care and very long and impactful waiting lists for people for care."Reid added that due to the daily, increasing levels of Covid-19 transmission in the community, many aspects of the health system are"under particular distress".

According to Reid, GPs, testing and tracing, public health teams, hospitals and ICUs are"dealing with a very disproportionate set of demands". This is as 3,500 health staff right now are out"through sickness or as symptomatic close contacts of Covid cases", which he said is also putting"huge pressure" on staff."The actions of the health service alone won't get us out of this current situation," Reid said.

"If cases continue to rise, there comes a time when no additional testing, tracing, vaccination, hospital beds or ICU will help to turn the tide.To help combat rising Covid figures in hospital, Reid called on members of the public that are unvaccinated against Covid-19 to receive their vaccine.He also urged the public to continue to follow public health advice, including mask-wearing and social distancing.

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