Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

Thousands of people marched in Navan last weekend to protect the emergency department in Navan, which provides life-or-death treatment and services for the people of County Meath. There was palpable anger that, at a time of key overcrowding, the Government was going to take capacity out of the system. Amazing data that blow the HSE figures out of the water have been provided by 23 hospital consultants. The HSE states that five patients travel from Meath to Drogheda every day but the 23 hospital consultants in Drogheda have used the hospital's own data systems to show that up to 47 patients could travel from Navan to Drogheda every day. I received a reply from the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, to a question I tabled on this matter who stated that the review into the closure of Navan emergency department would take just a couple of weeks and that preparations for closure can proceed in parallel with that review. Is it not outrageous to review something but continue to close it at the same time?

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