The Health Minister says the HSE’s recruitment embargo is not responsible for poor patient outcomes at University Hospital Limerick.
The comments were made during a sitting of the Oireachtas Petitions Committee yesterday, which discussed the MidWest Hospital Campaign’s request for the reopening of Accident & Emergency departments at Ennis, Nenagh and St.Johns.
So far this week, the INMO has recorded 445 patients on trolleys at UHL, which is 78% higher than the next busiest facility over this period; Cork University Hospital.
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Responding to Sinn Féin Senator Paul Gavan, Minister Stephen Donnelly says that despite receiving “unprecedented additional resources” UHL is not seeing the results it should.
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