INO general secretary Liam Doran said the organisation's A&E campaign was "all about the quality of our public health service. "Every morning the beds were taken by patients from A&E." ![]() ![]() We want action, and we want it now."Ī nurse in the day-surgery unit of a Dublin teaching hospital described how her unit had no bed for surgical procedures for four years because of the constant overflow from the A&E department. Tracey Hayes, a nurse at Tallaght hospital, was applauded when she said: "We have had enough reports, Tánaiste, enough dithering. Brought to A&E on a Friday night, he waited until Wednesday for a brain scan before being admitted for treatment for encephalitis, a serious infection of the brain tissue.Īnother INO executive council member, Jo Tully, said: "The Government has the money (to deal with the A&E crisis) we are the fourth richest country on the planet." She said the beds were already there but were closed to patients.Īnother delegate described how a 25-bed unit in Cavan hospital has never had a patient admitted since it was built. The conference was also told of the case of a 22-year-old man admitted to the A&E unit of a major Dublin hospital with a suspected brain haemorrhage.
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