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Search By Live95 News Team Credit - Getty Images The State’s Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan has returned to work after taking time off following the death of his wife Dr Emer Feely in February.
It s understood he returned to work on Monday.
The Department of Health confirmed the news today.
The State’s Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn has been filling in for Dr Holohan as Acting Chief Medical Officer in recent months.
Dr Holohan s wife Dr Feely had been battling a terminal form of blood cancer since 2012 and she died peacefully at Our Lady’s Hospice in Harold’s Cross, Dublin, in February in the company of her husband and their children, Clodagh and Ronan.
Dr Tony Holohan back to work in the campaign against Covid-19 after his wife s passing
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The doctor who has steered Ireland s battle against Covid-19 has returned to work after the death of his wife.
The Department of Health confirmed that the Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan is back at the helm in the Department of Health.
“The Department can confirm that CMO Dr Tony Holohan has resumed his duties,” said a statement.
Dr Holohan’s wife Dr Emer Feely died after a long illness in February. He returned on Monday, April 19.
The public health doctor took time off last summer to be with his wife and family after she entered the palliative phase of her illness.
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Heath Minister Stephen Donnelly has asked why he isn’t mentioned by the Department of Health in tweets.
The Irish Times reports an analysis was carried out of posts by the Department with other state agencies getting 78 mentions, while Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan was included 21 times.
Internal communications between its interim Secretary General and Head of Communications shows the issue of the Minister not getting mentioned needed to be discussed.
In the two weeks after the correspondence Minister Donnelly was mentioned in two tweets and retweeted by the Department’s Twitter account 12 times.
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