Covid-19: Health authorities 'working rapidly' to identify contacts of doctor and his family in Limerick
Patients who may have come into contact with one of the confirmed cases of Covid-19 are being contacted directly.
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Patients who may have come into contact with one of the confirmed cases of Covid-19 are being contacted directly.
Hospitals in Cork, Waterford, and South Tipperary have all imposed strict visiting restrictions.
Some 85 patients were without beds in University Hospital Limerick this morning.
The man escaped from the custody of prison officers through a window at the hospital shortly before 2pm.
Last month, Limerick had over 1,400 patients without beds.
The letter was signed off by five doctors and addressed to ‘the people of the Mid West’.
The letter states the hospital is in a ‘constant state of overcrowding’.
Peter Stapleton was not given headphones and was forced to listen to his upper leg being cut off with a saw.
The man is in a critical condition but is expected to pull through.
The INMO said today that the Major Emergency Plan should have been implemented at the hospital today, with 47 people on trolleys in the Emergency Department this morning.