The Health Service Executive has been "overwhelmed" by people wanting to help in the fight against Covid-19.
Paul Reid, Chief Executive of the HSE, told The Late Late Show that the interview process will begin next week and that 6,000 people will be interviewed each week.Mr Reid said that there are currently 10,000 beds in the public health system and that they are now "ramping up to match that with another 10,000 across the whole system".
— The Late Late Show March 20, 2020 On the same programme, the Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan described the fight against the corona virus as a marathon and not a sprint. "If we go too far too early, there's a chance we have to sustain for too long, and the level of compliance that people have with the measures that we have recommended will reduce and those measures will then become less effective".
HSELive Well done
HSELive Healthcare staff should be prioritised for testing, asking staff members to wait over a week for testing and results or telling them to self isolate with no testing for 14 days is going to cripple us, we had a staffing crisis before this outbreak .... we can’t afford to wait
HSELive People should appreciate their decision and will to help. Stay safe everyone
HSELive Physiatric wards need protective equipment. 💯 the scary part within two weeks the hospital beds will be taken over and doctors will have to decide who lives/who dies and it’s sad lots of people aren’t taken this seriously.
HSELive Will they provide full personal protective equipment for these people? Because our management is insisting we Community Mental Health Nurses don't need them. Universal Infection Precaution must be out of fashion.
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