HSE Mid West issue statement to those visiting hospitals this Christmas

University Hospital Limerick (UHL) is managing high attendances at its Emergency Department (ED) and significant inpatient admissions, driven by a spike in hospitalisations of people with flu over the past week.

As of yesterday, December 30, there are 76 patients with flu in UHL alone.

This is a 204% increase on the 25 recorded on Monday of last week.

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Given the demand on services, the HSE are immediately taking the following actions:

• restricting visitors across all sites to one visitor per patient.
• Children not permitted to visit adult wards at this time
• Visiting hours of 2-4pm and 6-9pm to be strictly enforced.
• Visitors must clean their hands on entry and exiting of wards.
• Visitors to UHL are being advised to wear face masks, which are available in the hospital.

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