{"id":219789,"date":"2025-12-31T11:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219789\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T11:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T11:38:09","slug":"healthcare-workers-at-risk-of-losing-financial-support-when-covid-sick-pay-scheme-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/219789\/","title":{"rendered":"Healthcare workers at risk of losing financial support when Covid sick-pay scheme ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">A nurse who contracted the virus in early 2021 has said the prospect is a \u2018tremendous worry\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has been asked to extend special sick-pay scheme for healthcare workers with long-Covid. Photo: PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/GettyImages-2202831580.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill has been asked to extend special sick-pay scheme for healthcare workers with long-Covid. Photo: PA<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A senior palliative care nurse at a busy hospice has told how she pleaded with a manager for high-grade medical masks before testing positive for Covid during the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The nurse, who is a member of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, was not vaccinated when she contracted the virus. She is now on sick leave with long-Covid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A nurse who contracted the virus in early 2021 has said the prospect is a \u2018tremendous worry\u2019 Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26022,103,397,396,2120,61,60,1421],"class_list":{"0":"post-219789","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-anne-marie-walsh","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-health-care","11":"tag-healthcare","12":"tag-hse","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-jennifer-carroll-macneill"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}