Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú) | Oireachtas source

The HSE has confirmed there will be an ambulance bypass of Our Lady’s Hospital in Navan and it will start on 12 December. It stated this is the first step in a two-step process to close the accident and emergency department in Navan and the second step will take place at the start of the new year. It is a scandal that this would happen in the middle of a winter surge, when hundreds of thousands of people have been on trolleys in this State over the past year, when we are out the door in terms of pressure in Navan and Drogheda, and when clinicians in Drogheda have said this step is dangerous to health.

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