Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

A consultant who was 30 years in the hospital did a painstaking study which found it was approximately the same as other hospitals. Senator John Crown, also a hospital consultant, has confirmed this and stated it brings into question the research on which Dr. Reilly is basing the entire hospital reconfiguration programme. At worst, Roscommon had the same coronary death rate as Galway hospital. This is the reality of the situation.

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