A memo seen by the
Irish Independent, dated January 19, asked Mr Cullen for assurances that the Beacon was in compliance with strict HSE vaccine sequencing rules.
The memo drew attention to the rules and guidelines set out in “the Sequencing of Covid-19 Vaccination of Frontline Healthcare Workers”.
Trevor O’Callaghan, CEO of the Dublin Midlands Hospital Group, writing on behalf of the Covid-19 Vaccination Steering Group, asked all hospital CEOs to account for any deviation from vaccination protocol.
“If there has been any deviation from this guidance can you advise re number of staff involved and circumstance around rationale for same,” he said.
Beacon Hospital CEO Michael Cullen was warned to stick to strict vaccination guidance just weeks before it distributed jabs to teachers at his children’s private school.
HSE hospital group update on Portlaoise hospital s response to Covid-19
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The HSE s Dublin Midland Hospital Group (DMHG) has thanked staff and the community in a statement in which it delivers an update on how Portlaoise hospital has and continues to respond nearly a year into the Covid-19 pandemic.
It says that in late February 2020, NPHET reported the first Irish case of COVID-19, the gravity of which was not appreciated or fully understood. However, it said hospitals responded. All hospitals mobilised very quickly to shore up capacity, redeploy and re-prioritise. This was done at an extraordinary pace, flexibility and resilience. Services were adapted and the unknown was truly embraced in one of the most extraordinary difficult years for Irish health services, said the DMHG.
Digital Desk StaffThe rate of Covid-19 infection among hospital workers has fallen by 90 per cent since the beginning of vaccine rollout for frontline staff, according to new data.The decline in infection has outpaced the reduction in .