We all need to listen to the experienced doctor

(Dr McCloskey’s article can be read here: ‘We emptied the hospitals and now a tsunami of non-Covid sickness is looming over us, ready to crash down’)

When political parties fail, we must be renewed by new parties and inspirational individuals telling us truths we do not care as a rule to hear.

We have put our doctors, nurses, care workers and patients at risk by greed and folly.

We don’t need to pay anyone for playing football. Let alone millions of pounds.

But we need to pay for the things that really matter. These are the important matters of life and death in our hospitals.

I can only hope that the coronavirus is now teaching us this much needed lesson.

Only experience can really teach us and it is evident that Dr McCloskey is speaking from that experience.

We all need to listen to her.

Dr Gerald Morgan, Dublin

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