Visiting restrictions for hospitals will ease from later this month and will be reviewed regularly as the Covid-19 situation improves. The guidance recommends all hospitals publish on their websites reasons for restrictions, including risk assessments on limiting birth partner access. Campaigners call for testingCampaigners for better access to maternity hospitals have called for partners to be given Covid-19 tests by hospitals. Partners are not visitors &shldn’t put pregnant partners @ ⬆️risk. #BetterMaternityCare https://t.co/SQwxvfSMg9 pic.twitter.com/cPJW5jYyRA — Keelin O'Donoghue (@keelinodonoghue) September 3, 2021Professor Keelin O’Donoghue, an obstetrician at Cork University Maternity Hospital, posted on Twitter in response to the new guidelines.

Source: Irish Examiner September 04, 2021 05:26 UTC