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The winter has always been a particularly tough time on health services, the colder darker season brings with it the usual illnesses and ailments that put our frontline nurses and doctors under added pressure, this has long been true even before the last 20 months of pandemic battle.

A pandemic bonus should be paid to the State’s healthcare workers to “honour and recognise” the work they have done to slow the spread of Covid-19.

Local Minister of State, Deputy Robert Troy, has welcomed the recent announcement that TEAM (Temporary Emergency Accommodation Midlands) will benefit from €35,000 in Covid stability funding.

During the pandemic, our frontline workers have worked tirelessly to keep us safe and well. In these difficult times they have certainly made the ultimate sacrifice to help save other people.

Possible plans by the HSE to cut 15 of 86 intern doctors working at UHG in July are “unacceptable” while the Covid-19 pandemic continues and the vaccination rollout proves to be “slow, stilted, and confusing”.

Complacency is the biggest enemy in the battle against the Covid-19 virus and it is important that people are on their guard and remain compliant in the run-up to Christmas, a nursing union official said this week.

A protest on the N84 Headford Road, against Garda checkpoints in the area, which disrupted traffic and delayed frontline medical workers from travelling into the city, has been condemned by a local councillor.

With a strong ‘together’ message to the fore, Athlone Credit Union have donated PPE towards the ‘local heroes’ frontline medical staff COVID-19 cause.