The team at Mayo University Hospital have resumed the Paediatric Clinics and have put a number of new measures in place to ensure the clinics can be run safely in the context of COVID-19.
Commenting Professor Michael O’Neill, Consultant Paediatrician at Mayo University Hospital (MUH) said, “Fortunately over the last number of months the impact of COVID-19 on children has been limited and here in MUH we have seen very few potentially affected children. Obviously the pandemic changed how every hospital sees and treats patients and here in Mayo University Hospital we have put a number of measures in place to ensure that our paediatric clinics can run as safely and effectively as possible. We have a Paediatric Decision Unit on the Paediatric ward and we see patients there on an elective basis. We have also put a system in place that allows GPs to contact us directly in the Paediatric Department for one hour in the morning. This gives GPs the opportunity to discuss their patients directly with the consultant and a decision can be made whether or not the child needs to be referred to hospital. It also means we can plan for any tests that a child might need, such as blood tests or x-rays.
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