Seanad debates

Wednesday, 22 October 2003

National Task Force on Medical Staffing: Statements.

 

If this report is fully implemented, the hospital will only open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. I passed the hospital this morning and the lights were on in the accident and emergency department. It is a beacon of hope for those who are ill and in need of emergency treatment. Yesterday, there was an 85 year old man and a 92 year old nun on trolleys in the hospital. Would they get a bed in Galway? Will the 14,000 people who are treated in the accident and emergency department in Roscommon be shipped to Galway where there will be no beds available for them? There will be no beds because it is more expensive to provide those beds than to provide the consultants in Roscommon County Hospital.

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