A HSE-run nursing home where 22 elderly residents lost their lives to Covid-19, and which is at the centre of whistleblower allegations, breached several infection-control rules, leaving them at higher risk from the virus, an investigation has found.
The report backs up five of 12 allegations made by former healthcare worker Margo Hannon who was working in St Mary’s Nursing Home in the Phoenix Park, Dublin, at the time.
In a statement tonight, Ms Hannon said she welcoemd the release of the executive summary of this report.
But she added that she was left "frustrated and disappointed with the inexcusable delay in getting to this point".
Ms Hannon said: "It has been over 1,000 days since I submitted my protective disclosure, my main objective being to ensure that the policy failures I witnessed in managing the Covid-19 outbreak during the initial stages of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic, could be investigated and lessons learned quickly to strengthen health systems and protect patients in nursing homes during the pandemic.
"I desperately wanted other nursing home managers to learn from our experience in St Mary’s so that unnecessary suffering and fatalities could be averted.
"The fact that it has taken over 1,000 days for the executive summary of this report to be published meant that this core objective is a dismal failure.
“It is equally inexcusable that only the executive summary of this report will be made public. If we truly want a transparent and accountable...
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