Seanad debates

Wednesday, 22 October 2003

National Task Force on Medical Staffing: Statements.

 

What is happening now? It has been bought for the purpose of turning it into a five day week, nine to five hospital, and for the remainder of the time it will be a convalescent home with a professional nursing service taking care of people. The report states that 70% of minor procedures are performed at local level. We will have people from Clifden coming to Portiuncula for a minor medical or surgical procedure, bypassing the centre of excellence as they will not be able to get in there. If that is what embracing Hanly entails, on the first day of its implementation something will happen, somewhere in Ireland, that will lead to tragedy because it is a flawed document. With the greatest professional respect to Mr. Hanly, a person with supreme knowledge of aviation and engineering, he was not the person to interpret, with any certainty, the needs of the local communities.

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