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Search By Live95 News Team via Google Maps UL Hospitals Group has announced the next step in its gradual relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions at University Maternity Hospital Limerick.
Starting next Monday, nomimnated partners will be given 45 minute visiting slots on University Maternity Hospital Limerick s postnatal wards between the hours of 6pm and 8pm daily.
This follows the recent reintroduction of partners present for anomaly scans, and visiting for fathers or parents of babies in the neonatal unit at the hospital.
Meanwhile, visiting on compassionate grounds will continue to be facilitated, as it has been throughout the pandemic.
All nominated partners must adhere to the wearing of face masks, observe hand hygiene and social distancing.
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The first steps have been taken to ease Covid-19 restrictions at the University Maternity Hospital in Limerick.
UL Hospitals Group has announced that a nominated partner can be present for anomaly scans from this week, while they will also be able to visit the neonatal unit from 4.30-6.30 in the evening from next Monday.
45-minute visiting slots for partners on the hospital’s postnatal wards are being assessed with a view to starting them on May 10th.
Birthing partners will also continue to be supported in attending the Labour Ward and Theatre.
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Visiting restrictions to maternity hospitals should be risk assessed to show how they are protecting women and staff, maternity advocates have said.
The call comes as a number of hospitals eased some restrictions in the last few days, but others have made no change. This only deepens the inequity of access, advocates say, as they demanded the science behind these changes be made public.