Nursing homes issue SOS for staff as Covid outbreaks in Cork facilities cause crisis

Mr Daly said that serial testing at nursing homes across the country each week is picking up positive cases in asymptomatic people, putting further pressure on staff.
Corkman Tadhg Daly said that there are currently an estimated 1,800 nursing home staff across the country out of work for reasons relating to Covid-19, while acute hospitals across the country are 7,000 staff members short.
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Dr John Sheehan, of Blackpool Bridge Surgery, said that he has received daily emails from the HSE in the last week “looking for nurses, healthcare workers and supports in different nursing homes around Cork and the army have been involved in providing supports in some nursing homes around Cork”.
He said that further appeals came from Cork University Hospital (CUH) on Friday for volunteers to help out in the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit (ICU) “because they were very short of staff
