Up to 30,000 hospital procedures will be cancelled due to a strike over the next two days.
2,100 medical scientists are picketing over pay and career development issues – similar to last Wednesday’s action.
They’re refusing to carry out routine lab services from 8am to 8pm today and tomorrow.
Letterkenny University Hospital will be affected today again.
The Saolta University Health Care Group anticipates Emergency Departments will be affected as a result.
Tony Canavan, the chief executive of the Saolta hospital group, says the strike will badly affect patients:
