Doctors at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Crumlin and the Department of Paediatrics at Trinity College examined four cases in which young teenagers were injured in the weeks after Christmas.

Since December 2019 the increase in staff numbers has been 26,000 WTE or up by 21.8 per cent.

The warning follows a case of a 21-year-old woman who suffered a rare splenic fungal abscess after undergoing gastric sleeve surgery in Turkey.

Irish GPs can provide Early Medical Abortion (EMA) in pregnancies less than 10 weeks gestation but currently there is no published data regarding education for community EMA amongst undergraduate medical students and GPs in Ireland.