THE IRISH NURSES and Midwives Organisation will begin consulting with its members next week on possible industrial action, the union’s general secretary said.
“It is simply not acceptable that every single year around this time we have this crisis because the the effects of the crisis for patients actually is that they’re dying unnecessarily,” Ní Sheaghga said.Another issue of concern for the INMO is the amount of nurses being assaulted at work as an average of 11 members of the union are assaulted each day, Ní Sheaghda said.
Ní Sheaghda added that the overcrowding in hospitals was partially due to a lack of longterm care beds, which has a ripple effect on other areas of the HSE. Earlier this week SIPTU called for an extra 2,000 paramedic staff along with 120 new ambulances to provide the level of service now needed to cope with demand on the healthcare service.
When asked about the predictability of hospital overcrowding crises each year and the state’s failure to intervene before it happens, he stated: O’Brien also commented on the government’s plan to utilise private healthcare beds to take the strain from the HSE.
Hospitals are full all over Europe..mabe people should look at the covid vaccine..