NURSES AT NAAS General Hospital have voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action.
The ballot saw 97% of nurses vote in favour of the work to rule due to severe overcrowding at the hospital.
It comes after members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation working in the University Hospital Limerick, Ennis Hospital, Nenagh Hospital and Croom Orthopaedic Hospital voted in favour of industrial action yesterday.
Nurses at Galway University Hospital voted for the action on Monday – a week after Beaumont Hospital also announced its intention of going on a work to rule.
The work to rule will start on February 4. It means that nurses will not perform any administrative, clerical or non-clinical tasks.
Last week, the Health Minister Leo Varadkar warned that the overcrowding situation would only get worse this week and said that he was “sick to death of this problem”.
Speaking after the ballot INMO Industrial Relations Officer, Derek Reilly said:
INMO members are gravely concerned for the well-being of patients who have to suffer the indignity of being nursed on a corridor for days at a time.
“The levels of overcrowding and staff shortages at Naas General Hospital are now the worst in the hospital’s history.”
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