Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Winter Preparedness in the Hospital System: Discussion

Dr. Colm Henry:

Go to their GP first. In terms of RSV, the GPs are skilled in not just assessing patients but also assessing those who need onward referral to hospitals in a minority of cases. Those who get particularly sick in hospital are infants who are less than one year of age because their respiratory system is not yet mature to the point where it can adapt to respond in a robust way to the virus. That is where we see the greatest pressure.

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