NPHET prepped on Ebola

The National Public Health Emergency Team (NPHET), which co-ordinates health sector responses during the planning and response phases of a public health emergency, held its weekly meeting last week (October 23) to consider the level of preparation in acute hospitals in the unlikely event of a case of Ebola in Ireland. The NPHET noted that the European Centres for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) had concluded that the risk of a case in the EU was low and thus the risk of transmission of Ebola in Ireland remained “very low”. According to a statement issued through the Department of Health,…