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Ella Henderson had been playing with friends when she was hit by a decaying willow tree in her school playground

The children’s free nasal flu vaccine will be available up until January 23

Newcastle City Council has been fined £280,000 for failings that led to the tragic death of six-year-old Ella while she was playing with her friends at school in Gosforth

A council has now been fined £280,000

Pharmacists are calling on the government to introduce serious shortage protocols, which would enable them to prescribe alternative medicines when others are out of stock

While many people being admitted to hospital are coping with new bouts of the Flu, Covid, and other respiratory illnesses, others are struggling with Long Covid

Pharmacists claim that the shortages have been ongoing for several months and include medications used to treat the Strep A infection, which can cause serious illness amongst young children and elderly adults

The hospitals worst affected include University Hospital Limerick (UHL) with 48 patients waiting, Cork University Hospital with 38 and Letterkenny University Hospital with 37 patients.

Almost 70,000 people are said to be suffering from Long Covid in Dublin and more than 11,000 saying it impacted on their daily lives

The campaign is aimed at preventing crisis pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases

One of these was St Bricin’s in Dublin city centre, which is just a stone’s throw from the Mater hospital in Dublin 7.