Peadar Tóibín TD has read what he described as a “damning document” into the Dáil record in which he says it appears that the Government moved elderly patients “wholesale out of hospital beds and crammed them into nursing homes just as Covid hit the country”. Over 2,000 people died with Covid in Nursing Homes, but commentators […]
369 elderly people died in Irish nursing homes in January, bringing the total number of nursing homes deaths since the outbreak to over 1,500.
A fascinating clip from the United States, over the weekend, which should raise real questions about the management of Covid in Irish nursing homes: https://twitter.com/ZacBissonnette/status/1360982497769775104 In Florida, says that state’s Republican Governor (and, by the by, future Presidential candidate), Ron DeSantis, the medical experts told him that if he kept patients from nursing homes in […]
“I do actually find it inexcusable that staff on nursing homes or those roles would not take the vaccine, to be frank.”
The HSE has told nursing homes that some residents who are frail and elderly should not be vaccinated against Covid-19.
Bloomberg.com has reported that 23 people have died in Norway a short time after receiving the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín TD has again called for clarity from the government regarding the ‘Be on Call for Ireland’ database as the situation in hospitals and nursing homes across the country spirals out of control. The Meath West deputy revelaed that he has been told that some desperate nursing homes are texting families and […]
Peadar Tóibín TD has called on the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly to make a statement in the Dáil to correct a statement he made in relation to a Covid-19 outbreak in a nursing home in Galway in October. The Minister accused the Aontú leader of telling a “flat out lie” when he raised the […]
Dr Mike Fitzpatrick sympathises with the effects of the Covid pandemic lockdown on the elderly, but warns against older people disregarding the restrictions, not least because robustly proclaiming that the interests of young people should not be sacrificed to those who have lived much longer ‘gives succour to those who are inclined to the view […]
The figures in relation to elder abuse, released yesterday by the HSE, are simply astonishing. Here’s Newstalk with a summary: The health service’s National Safeguarding Office received almost 12,000 ‘concerns’ of abuse of vulnerable people last year. Some 3,337 related to adults over 65-years-of-age – a 9% increase on the year before. One third (33%) […]
A stark message from a rural GP today warned of an urgent emergency as a nursing home where 26 out of 28 residents are positive for Covid has been left with only one nurse and carer available in the last 72 hours. Dr Martin Daly warned that one resident of the home has died and another […]
Independent TD for Laois Offaly Carol Nolan has said that she has written to the Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe asking him to urgently investigate the lack of insurance options for nursing homes who operate with a capacity of less than 40 beds. Deputy Nolan said that unless the matter is dealt with quickly and […]