A staff member in the medical assessment unit of Ennis General Hospital has become the facility’s first staff member to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
The first healthcare worker at the hospital to be vaccinated was Dr Mary Kennedy of the Medical Assessment Unit, who received her vaccine from Staff Nurse Caroline Mulligan.
Dr Kennedy said: “This is a day we have all been waiting for in Ennis Hospital and the arrival of these vaccines gives us all hope that an end is in sight.”
The first batch of vaccines was delivered to Ennis Hospital this Wednesday morning, and it is planned initially to administer 50 doses per day to healthcare staff. For Dr Kennedy and all those who received vaccinations today, a second vaccination is required after a three-week period.
Up to Tuesday evening, 490 staff in total had been vaccinated under the programme. By the end of the week, with plans at an advanced stage to start vaccination at Croom, Nenagh and St John’s Hospital, it is envisaged that at least 1,500 healthcare workers will have received the first dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
