Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the disgraceful situation where a 77 year old man who is seriously ill in Mayo General Hospital, Castlebar, has been waiting for the past seven days to be transferred to a bed in the consultant haematology unit of University College Hospital Galway for urgent investigation and treatment of his condition. Even though the consultant in Mayo and the consultant haematologist in Galway are both of the opinion that he needs to be transferred urgently to Galway, they are unable to do so owing to the failure of the Government and the Health Service Executive to provide a hospital bed for him.

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