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Deep in the bowels of the ICU at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) are 10 glass rooms housing some of Ireland s sickest patients. Nine of them have Covid-19 and can t breathe alone. As well as their essential ventilators, they are entirely dependent on doctors, nurses and healthcare workers to survive. Some are only just surviving.
The human cost of working on the front line during the country s deadliest ever health emergency has taken a severe toll on healthcare workers, who are battling against staff shortages and a surging demand for hospital beds.