By Q Radio News
Military personnel have arrived on hospital wards in Northern Ireland to help on the frontline fight against COVID19.
Paramedic-grade equivalent staff have been drawn from all three services - the RAF, Royal Navy and Army.
They were flown in on a military transport flight from RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire earlier this week.
The army technicians will take up nursing assistant roles in local hospitals.
A Department of Health spokesperson said: ''The Department can confirm that military personnel from all three services (Army/Navy and RAF) are being deployed to assist on hospital wards in Northern Ireland to help alleviate the staffing pressures of the pandemic.
''The paramedic-grade equivalent staff will take up nursing assistant roles in local hospitals.
Eventually, more than 100 medically-trained military personnel will be deployed in Northern Ireland.''
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