Death of OLH by a Thousand Cuts
Sinn Fein Cllr Joe Reilly, a member of the Dublin North East Regional Health Forum has described the most recent reports of
the removel of surgical services from Our Lady's Hospital to Drogheda as the "Death of OLH by a Thousand HSE Cuts"
He said: "the pending announcement by the HSE of the moving of surgical services from OLH to an already overcrowded Drogheda
has being made despite huge medical concerns being pressed by 47 local GP's and other medical professionals in Meath. The HSE while
stating that the move is in the interest of patients have failed to produce any medical report justifing the decision. Indeed local medical professionals are of the belief that patient safety is being placed danger by the proposed move".
"When this move is considered in conjunction with the proposed closure of the 24 bed psychiatric unit in OLH by 2012, the closure
of the A&E and the decision for the ambulance to bypass OLH and go direct to Drogheda, points to huge crisis in our health service
and desprate attempt to solve this crisis by jamming all services into an unsuitable and overcrowded Drogheda and
killing off OLH by a thousand cuts".
"The statement by HSE management appear more akin to the utterings of a multi-national corporation CEO than those of people
responsible for the provision of a public health system".
I call on the GP's in the region to have the courage to challange the present HSE policy in the interest of their patients and the wider community
The economic crisis means that thousands more of our people can not now afford private insurance and are now dependent on the public
health system".
"The health policies of this FF/Green government have failed. They have pumped €24,000,000000m so far into the black hole that
is Angelo Irish Bank (your friendly FF Bank) while slashing investment in people's health. Minister Dempsey, Deputy Brady, Wallace
and Byrne should go".
the removel of surgical services from Our Lady's Hospital to Drogheda as the "Death of OLH by a Thousand HSE Cuts"
He said: "the pending announcement by the HSE of the moving of surgical services from OLH to an already overcrowded Drogheda
has being made despite huge medical concerns being pressed by 47 local GP's and other medical professionals in Meath. The HSE while
stating that the move is in the interest of patients have failed to produce any medical report justifing the decision. Indeed local medical professionals are of the belief that patient safety is being placed danger by the proposed move".
"When this move is considered in conjunction with the proposed closure of the 24 bed psychiatric unit in OLH by 2012, the closure
of the A&E and the decision for the ambulance to bypass OLH and go direct to Drogheda, points to huge crisis in our health service
and desprate attempt to solve this crisis by jamming all services into an unsuitable and overcrowded Drogheda and
killing off OLH by a thousand cuts".
"The statement by HSE management appear more akin to the utterings of a multi-national corporation CEO than those of people
responsible for the provision of a public health system".
I call on the GP's in the region to have the courage to challange the present HSE policy in the interest of their patients and the wider community
The economic crisis means that thousands more of our people can not now afford private insurance and are now dependent on the public
health system".
"The health policies of this FF/Green government have failed. They have pumped €24,000,000000m so far into the black hole that
is Angelo Irish Bank (your friendly FF Bank) while slashing investment in people's health. Minister Dempsey, Deputy Brady, Wallace
and Byrne should go".
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