The Health Service Executive has said it will maintain special measures in the health service for around ten weeks to continue to protect patient safety.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation warned today that the level of overcrowding in Irish hospitals was"still too high", with 497 patients waiting for admission to a hospital bed. "It will be a number of weeks before the level of flu will peak. At that point they will stay at this high level, before reducing to normal levels.
HSE Chief Clinical Officer Dr Colm Henry said that while Covid-19 cases were"beginning to level off", it's too early to say if flu cases have peaked. "The word 'exceptional' has been fairly used because the season started earlier, has been rising for a longer period of time and hasn't peaked yet," he said. Read more: Why do the HSE and INMO trolley figures differ?
Perhaps the rate of increase is beginning to abate, he said, but they would need another week of study before they can establish if we are at the peak.
Why are cancelled operations being marketed as a solution?
What measures 4 day waits is it
Maintain what measures HSELive ? I’m confused.