The Minor Injuries Unit can treat 'cuts and grazes', 'bites and stings'. However you cannot go there with injuries sustained from a 'fall from any height', even, we presume, if those injuries are only grazes?!! You can go there with 'injuries to your nose' but not with 'facial injuries'. Obviously the nose is not located on the face for Monaghan people!! You cannot go there with 'breathing problems' - the alternative is to remain where you are for 45 minutes until an ambulance arrives. In other words - they will treat those injuries that parents have treated at home for years and things that going to your local pharmacy could solve. Guess how long the Minor Injuries Unit will remain operational?
As for the out-patients clinics - they will come to an end very soon as doctors will refuse to travel to Monaghan due to weather conditions or 'being too busy in Cavan'.
The CT Scanner is another red-herring - it can only be used when the necessary staff come across from Cavan.
Peter McMahon
Posted on 29 Jul 2009 6:45 pm
The Minor Injuries Unit can treat 'cuts and grazes', 'bites and stings'. However you cannot go there with injuries sustained from a 'fall from any height', even, we presume, if those injuries are only grazes?!! You can go there with 'injuries to your nose' but not with 'facial injuries'. Obviously the nose is not located on the face for Monaghan people!! You cannot go there with 'breathing problems' - the alternative is to remain where you are for 45 minutes until an ambulance arrives. In other words - they will treat those injuries that parents have treated at home for years and things that going to your local pharmacy could solve. Guess how long the Minor Injuries Unit will remain operational?
As for the out-patients clinics - they will come to an end very soon as doctors will refuse to travel to Monaghan due to weather conditions or 'being too busy in Cavan'.
The CT Scanner is another red-herring - it can only be used when the necessary staff come across from Cavan.