Health Minister urged to address hospital overcrowding

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WATCH: Officials including HSE Chief Executive Paul Reid and Dept of Health Secretary General Robert Watt attend Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health | Read more:

Health Service Executive CEO Paul Reid and Secretary General of the Department of Health Robert Watt are due to appear before the Oireachtas Committee on Health this morning, where they are expected to discuss the implementation of Sláintecare.

He said there are not enough community beds to take people who should be transferred and a shortage of GPs means"far too many people are going to our emergency departments". "When people hear of patients over the age of 75 years of age, waiting over 24 hours in emergency departments, I think what people would be saying is 'here we go again back with a bang'", Mr Cullinane said. Questions must be asked of the HSE and the Department of Health as to why the figures vary across hospitals, he said.

 

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Both are an absolute an utter disgrace - zero qualifications and total Bluffers!!!!

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