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Covid surge affecting day to day health care at local GP surgeries

Mar 24, 2022 17:56 By Shannonside News
Covid surge affecting day to day health care at local GP surgeries
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Covid calls are taking up a huge proportion of local GP surgeries time.

A Leitrim GP says the sheer number of Covid cases is putting major pressure on local surgeries.

Dr Johnathon Egan at the Carrick Health Centre in Carrick-on-Shannon says they're dealing with a huge amount of phone calls from people who have Covid.

He says they're lucky to be able to share the workload among a number of doctors in the practice, but it is still proving difficult on top of day-to-day issues.

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The GP says while many people are reporting debilitating symptoms of severe headache and fever they're not having to be admitted to hospital:

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