{"id":26375,"date":"2022-05-27T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=26375"},"modified":"2022-05-29T10:13:25","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T14:13:25","slug":"ireland-secures-order-of-monkeypox-vaccines-says-hse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishexaminerusa.com\/wp\/?p=26375","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Secures Order Of Monkeypox Vaccines Says HSE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Ireland has secured an order of vaccines against monkeypox, HSE boss Paul Reid has said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chief executive said that he expects the delivery to be made \u201cvery shortly\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Reid also said it is \u201cmore likely than not\u201d that Ireland will see\u00a0cases of monkeypox within its own health system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He made the comments after health officials in Northern Ireland confirmed on Thursday that a case of monkeypox has been identified in the North.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore likely than not we will see cases in our health service,\u201d Mr Reid said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t spread easily between people, it\u2019s generally a skin-to-skin transmission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is a mild, self-limiting illness and most people do recover in weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve secured an order of vaccines that we expect to deliver very shortly. We have put in place a whole set of incident management teams, and putting communications out with our health services in terms of what to monitor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also said that they will consider vaccinating healthcare workers, but will take advice from the National Immunization Advisory Committee (Niac) on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said there is evidence across Europe of vaccinating healthcare workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Thursday, T\u00e1naiste Leo Varadkar said that it was \u201cinevitable\u201d that monkeypox will be detected here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re not aware of any cases in the Republic of Ireland as of yet, but it\u2019s almost inevitable \u2013 in fact, it is inevitable \u2013 that there will be cases in the Republic of Ireland,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Mr Reid also said the HSE is focusing on its community intervention teams as another way to treat older people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HSE management is under pressure to tackle waiting hours in emergency departments after it emerged that the average waiting time for admission in hospital\u00a0emergency departments was nearly 14 hours for people aged 75 and over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Reid said they are working on improving the system outside the hospital, which includes community intervention teams and multidisciplinary teams who treat older people in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese things take time, but there are right things that we are resourcing,\u201d Mr Reid told RT\u00c9 Morning Ireland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThen within the emergency department itself, we are very focused on some initiatives that we are putting in place around a greater screening processes emergency departments have with local community, with local GPs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat we are focused on, and we\u2019re finalizing these now particularly emergency departments, specific plans for each emergency department and each hospital all across the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEach hospital are returning back to myself and the teams, for review, of very specific and targeted emergency department relations within their own emergency department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are focused on recruiting more advanced nurse practitioners to relieve the pressure on medics and consultants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is about very specific targeted interventions. Some of the interventions again are outside of the emergency department.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He said that other initiatives include mobile diagnostics which would see health staff going into nursing homes with mobile scans

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