Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar answers to the call ‘Your Country Needs You’ and re-registers as medical practitioner
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Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has re-registered as a medical practitioner and will work one shift a week to help out during the coronavirus crisis, RTE reports.
Mr Varadkar worked as a doctor for seven years before leaving the profession to become a politician and was removed from the medical register in 2013.
Reuters reports that Varadkar worked as a doctor for seven years before leaving the profession to become a politician and was removed from the medical register in 2013.
He rejoined the medical register in March, and offered his services to the country’s Health Service Executive (HSE) for one session a week in areas that are within his scope of practice, a spokesman for his office said.
The Reuters News Agency quotes his spokesman saying “Many of his family and friends are working in the health service. He wanted to help out even in a small way.”
Only last month, health minister Simon Harris launched a recruitment drive for the country’s struggling health service to tackle the coronavirus outbreak with a stark message: “Your country needs you”. The initiative received more than 70,000 responses for its “Be on call for Ireland” initiative.
