Posted on 09/17/2017 10:51:13 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The Government needs to invest more than €5 billion in additional beds, equipment and infrastructure as there is now clear evidence acute hospitals are “beginning to fail”, senior doctors have warned.
In a submission to the Department of Health, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) said the system was experiencing ever-increasing waiting lists for essential surgery while there had been a “collapse” in the elective or non-urgent output in acute hospitals.
It warned key targets in relation to cancer care were also now being missed.
The submission, sent last Friday, said the waiting time prior to the commencement of chemotherapy — after a consultant decides this is required — was now five to six weeks in some hospitals as a result of staff shortages on oncology day wards. It said this was up to three times longer than official guidelines stipulated. …
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Darn, I guess they picked the wrong Socialists to run the "health care" system.
They will need to replace them with twice as many proper Socialists, raise taxes and give a lot more money to those "correct" Socialists to save the system.
Import more muslim moochers - that should fix it.
They also need more fags in government, not just the prime minister. When they become a nationalful of muslims run by a bunch of fags, everything will become perfect.
Hospital machines that go ‘Beep!’ are expensive.
Single payer. Everyone has equal access to the waiting lists.
where have I heard that before?
Ireland is the canary in the mine shaft giving the warning for socialized medicine. Proponents of socialized medicine should be rounded up and committed to mental institutions.
That's because the price of hospital machines is not controlled by the mechanism that controls the price of smart phones.
They aren't crazy, they are just lying...
Monty Python, IIRC.
Socialized medicine at its finest. I forgot how long my sister in law’s father had to wait for heart surgery. Months. That was in Dublin.
thanks! :)
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