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Karen McGowan told meeting work needed now to ensure healthcare workers better protected in another pandemic

Minister of State Neale Richmond and INMO president Karen McGowan at a Workers Memorial Day commemoration for people killed, injured or bereaved due to workplace accidents at the Garden of Remembrance in Dublin on Friday. Photograph: Gareth Chaney/ Collins PhotosThe Health and Safety Authority must do more to address the working conditions of healthcare workers the president of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has said.

“If you’re in construction, you need to have scaffolding to keep your staff safe. But there was no scaffolding for nurses and midwives during this pandemic, that was very apparent.

“There are significant resources going into that division,” he said. “We have an inspection team that’s dedicated to the health and social care sector. So we have increased our inspections in that sector.”

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