The HSE is urging the public to "consider all options" before heading to an emergency department in an Irish hospital as the health crisis worsens.
In a statement issued this evening they said that the country's hospitals are facing "one of the busiest periods ever" in the health service's history. They have warned that urgent patients will, as always, be prioritised and anyone else will face extremely long waiting times.
A trio of viruses, Covid-19, influenza and RSV, are on the increase. The HSE are warning that they expect the record number of patients in hospitals - 931 people were waiting for a bed this morning - to stay that way for a number of weeks.
