Seanad debates

Wednesday, 25 June 2003

Council Regulation on Procedures for amending the Sirene Manual: Referral to Joint Committee. - Health Service Reform: Statements (Resumed).

 

I recently spent three hours talking to a man who bought an MRI scanner about six years ago when there was a mile-long queue at every hospital looking for them and there were none available in hospitals in rural areas. Although I do not have time to outline them, I am sure the Minister would find extraordinary the difficulties encountered by that man in providing MRI scans at two thirds of the price it was costing hospitals. The machine was installed in a clinic attached to St. James's Hospital, right in the middle of the Minister's health board area. He was obstructed every step of the way and not by the politicians. It was the consultants who refused to read the scans, who refused to co-operate, who refused to refer people.

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