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Ms Kingston (50) works at Cork University Hospital (CUH), one of the hospitals which has been worst hit during the third coronavirus wave.
Long hours are something she is accustomed to, but what’s draining about the pandemic is how you feel “absolutely helpless”.
“Before, we had a family room and you could lay out the body and the family could grieve for a while – but that’s gone now,” she told the Irish Independent.
“That is one of the hardest things – no, actually it is the hardest. You feel you’re to blame, you feel it’s your fault that you can’t let people in to be with loved ones and you do take it home with you. How I take things home with me is that I stay quiet, and the knock-on effect is that my husband and son know to stay away from me. I would come home at night time, get a shower, come downstairs and fall asleep on the couch and be no good to anybody.”
Updated: 9 Feb 2021, 15:12
IRELAND is going to be hit with a “tsunami of missed care” that will stretch the health service to its “absolute limit”, an Oireachtas Committee was told.
Healthcare reps also warned of staff retention issues and a post-pandemic “exodus” of workers from the system as the state was accused of abandoning them.
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The Oireachtas Health Committee this morning heard from organisations representing consultants, doctors, nurses and midwives
Reps from the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA), the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) and The Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) discussed issues facing their members during the fight against Covid-19.
Irish health service facing tsunami of missed care
There are currently more than 800,000 people on hospital waiting lists.
Michelle Devane, PA
IRELAND S healthcare system is facing a tsunami of missed care due to non-Covid care being put on hold during the pandemic, an Oireachtas health committee has said.
Professor Robert Landers of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) warned that the health service will not be able to deal with the issues coming down the line in a timely fashion and that it will stretch the service to the absolute limit . There is no doubt that we re facing a tsunami of missed care or late care, and unlike the Covid crisis we know exactly the scale of this and it will stretch our health services to the absolute limit, he said.