As restrictions continue for the partners of pregnant women at University Hospital Limerick, is it now time to allow fully vaccinated partners additional access?
Calls have been repeatedly made to end the ad hoc system of restrictions imposed on the partners of pregnant people attending the country’s 19 maternity units since the outbreak of the pandemic.
But according to a report in the Irish Examiner this week, the HSE has now ruled out extending visiting hours or further access for fully vaccinated fathers and birth partners.
On Friday’s Morning Focus Alan Morrissey spoke to Yvonne Aherne, activist in the Irish Birth Movement and Fine Gael Senator Martin Conway, who is a member of the Dáil Oireachtas Health Committee.