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.
Goal has blamed the technical and personal difficulties Irish healthcare professionals face in uprooting themselves for the low response to date to its emergency recruitment drive
The European Commission has announced €24.
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has serious safety concerns regarding the Ebola virus, including the continued crowding of emergency departments (EDs) with admitted inpatients on trolleys.
Additional actions in relation to clinical guidance, communications and transport have been put forward by the Minister for Health as the prime responses so far to the Ebola threat, reports Gary Culliton.
The IMO has met with HSE officials to discuss concerns over preparations for dealing with suspected cases of Ebola and has stressed the need to establish sufficiently robust protocols for suspected cases in an emergency department setting.
The Ebola virus has been ruled out for a patient who had been considered a low risk for the disease, the HSE announced last Monday (October 20).
The HPSC has provided up-to-date advice on managing Ebola for GPs on its website www.
The Irish Association for Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has serious safety concerns regarding the Ebola virus, including the continued crowding of emergency departments (EDs) with admitted inpatients on trolleys.
The increasingly ‘out of control’ Ebola outbreak will help to highlight the great self-sacrifice doctors make daily in the line of duty, writes Dr Muiris Houston.
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