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AN ACCIDENT AND Emergency department at St. Columcilles’s Hospital in Loughlinstown Dublin which dealt with 21,000 cases last year is to close at some stage this year.
The HSE has said that the hospital will be left with a minor injury service, operating during the day, and that emergency cases will sent to St. Vincent’s hospital reports RTE. However, no date has been set.
It comes as health sector unions issue a second warning in 24 hours that chaos will descend on the hospital system within days, reports the Irish Examiner.
Wicklow Labour TD Anne Ferris said the Loughlinstown decision is a devastating one for families living in Co. Wicklow who are currently using the acute services, while People Before Profit Alliance TD Richard Boyd-Barrett said shutting down the 24-hour service was “utterly unacceptable”.
The HSE has also said that the hospital will stop accepting acute surgical cases by the end of the year.
Local residents have been taking to Twitter to vent their frustration with @stainlessSRat commenting that St Vincent’s Hospital is “not very near in an emergency” and @Nelligirl101 calling the decision “mad”.
Twitter user Cara D said that he family were among those who had used the A&E department in recent years:
However other locals said that they had “bypassed” Loughlinstown in the past in favour of St. Vincents.
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So we just roll over and accept generations of debt ?
Best to just take the pain now and get it over with.. quiet inevitable sadly.
A unilateral default = slashing public sector wages and social welfare by a third overnight. There’d be riots on the streets with the likes of Eirigi taking their opportunity as the ‘blue flue’ strikes the Gardai.
I kind of understand why no sensible politician is so quick to jump for that option.
think Ireland should still back out of undeerwriting the banks – yes this would set of another bust , but we are so bust now and for years to come overall it won’t make that much difference. Write off the banks and start again, with a new bank that the citizens can trust, is run transparently and with new employment contracts, no bonuses, limited higher limit earnings etc. – You know like any other job !
Great idea of course but it’ll never happen.. The political leadership ofthis country are so frightened of l appearing to rock the European boat that they’ll do exactly what they are told like good little paddys..as for noonan saying senior bondholders are to receive a haircut this is either an attempt to bluff an interest rate cut from the troika or cynical attempt to garner some positive publicity for the hundred day milestone fg set for themselves..now they wouldn’t do that would they??
The power of money is imense and if the citizens remove thier own personal money – I know businesses can’t do this, but ordinary citizens can take thier money out of the accounts, this would make the government listen to its people – a run on the banks would be benefitical to citizens in closing these still banks and ensuring a new banking systems starts. The solution is not always in the sole hands of the government.
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