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The Irish College of General Practitioners warns that heart attacks and strokes are being lost during the Covid-19 crisis.
President Dr. Mary Favier is urging people to contact their doctor, even if they are not sick with coronavirus.
She said: “We lack heart attacks, we lack strokes, we lack diabetes, other lumps that should have been seen,
“And what we don’t want is to get it back in a year and say that more people suffered illnesses and deaths from non-Covid diseases than from Covid itself.”
That is a particular concern.
Earlier today, Dr. Favier welcomed a further drop in the number of people receiving Covid-19 treatment in intensive care units.
The latest figure is 98, just the second time it’s been less than 100 in the past month.
She said: “If people spend time in intensive care, whether they have had a serious operation or something has happened to them, it is often only a couple of days, this (coronavirus) can be a couple of weeks.
“Therefore, we would expect there to be a considerable delay from the time people contract the disease, until they enter the hospital, enter intensive care and are discharged.”
“So it’s very good that we start to see that line start to go down, because it means that infections from, say, a month or six weeks ago were decreasing.”
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