Posted on 01/10/2023 5:35:17 PM PST by Olog-hai
Ireland is in the midst of a “medical workforce shortage”, according to the Irish Medical Organization’s Chairman of the Consultant Committee, Dr. Matthew Sadlier.
“We are facing an international, global medical workforce shortage,” he said on RTÉ’s Drivetime. “We are competing against countries like Australia and Canada for doctors and frankly we are losing those competitions in being able to recruit doctors.”
Dr. Sadlier said it is “increasingly difficult” to recruit junior doctors and there are many vacant consultant posts. He added that if the solution is to make the doctors already in the system work longer hours, that will lead to increased burnout.
The IMO has been “shouting” about the lack of resources for decades, he said. […]
He added that it is critical that people understand that the current emergency is not simply a temporary winter crisis, or a result of a perfect storm of COVID-19, flu and respiratory illnesses, as these are merely the proximate causes of the latest crisis.
A new surge in RSV is being reported in the Mid-West health region of the country, which covers counties Limerick, Clare and north Tipperary.
The concern is that this will place even further pressure on University Hospital Limerick, which has the most overcrowded emergency department in the country. …
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Better off without their third world paki “doctors”.
Nothing 50,000 filipina nurses can’t fix.
Might help shore up what’s left of the auld sod’s Catholic Church, too...
Cloward Piven in full bloom.
Israel has a similar problem.
Funny how this is all happening worldwide at the same time and even by countries with socialized medicine…
Milton Friedman said, “If the government was in charge of the Sahara Desert, it would run out of sand.”
If the Irish and the Israelis don’t have enough medical workers, that’s kind of unnerving.
Don’t look now, but we don’t have enough either. The US medical establishment is in an unreported shortage and getting worse.
But plenty to care for the millions of invaders. Sorry Irish. You ain’t Irish.
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