The President of the Medical Council, Dr Rita Doyle, has revealed that 121 new doctors have already joined the register of medical practitioners, with a roughly equal number returning from abroad or coming out of retirement to tackle the coronavirus outbreak.
This number is in addition to doctors returning to practice or returning home who had remained on the register. Fifty-five percent of doctors answering the HSE call for extra staff have returned to Ireland while 45 percent had retired but are resuming work.
Dr Doyle said: "I am heartened to see the huge response we are seeing from colleagues who are coming out of retirement, returning to medical practice or returning home to Ireland in response to the national response to the