One in six midwifery posts are being left vacant.
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THERE ARE OVER 1,300 vacant nursing and midwifery posts in Irish hospitals due to the HSE’s effective recruitment freeze, the INMO has said today.
Phil Ní Sheaghdha of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation has said the figures demonstrate that the government is “refusing to fill frontline healthcare posts” and that patient care is being compromise as a result. . . [Full text]
Given the shortage of nurses and midwives, it would seem imprudent for the state to demand that unwilling nurses or midwives participate in abortion.