Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 22 January 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Impact of High Levels of Covid-19 on the Health System: Discussion
Mr. Liam Woods:
Maybe I will address the other elements of the Deputy's questions. On the piece about extra staff, outside the private hospitals there is no magic bullet in terms of staff available for nursing or other services. We should of course acknowledge that the Army and the military generally have given us assistance in various areas of this, as have other staff cohorts but for direct service provision there are very few options and we are at the limit of that. The Deputy was projecting what would happen if there were a surge on top of the surge - our entire hope is that we are levelling off and beginning to see some decrease in total volume. Dr. Hamilton might comment on the field hospital idea.
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