A Clare member of the MidWest Hospitals Campaign is making a fresh call for targeted investment aimed at upgrading the region’s model two facilities.
It’s in response to comments from the new CEO of the HSE, who’s told the Oireachtas Health Committee there’s no easy answer to calls for A&E units At Ennis, Nenagh and St John’s to be re-opened and that other measures must be implemented first.
Bernard Gloster has also asked hospital management to explore using plans for the new 96-bed block, which is currently under construction, as a blueprint for a second one in order to speed up the process.
A number of day cases were cancelled at Ennis hospital yesterday due to sustained high presentations at the ED in Limerick this week, with the UL Hospitals Group monitoring elective surgery lists over the coming days.
Corbally native, Melanie Sheehan-Cleary, who’s daughter died in UHL in 2019, is welcoming the sense of urgency, but insists re-opening the region’s A&Es would have a greater impact.
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