Taoiseach 'clearly not listening' to UHL safety concerns - Mary Lou McDonald
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2024
- Over the last few weeks, Lunchtime Live has been highlighting the conditions at the Limerick hospital, which is regularly the most overcrowded in the country.
A protest was held at the hospital this month as the Health Minister Stephen Donnelly and HSE Chief Bernard Gloster were visiting.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has described UHL’s Emergency Department as a ‘war zone’ - and Lunchtime Live has been flooded with emails from patients about the conditions all this week.
Limerick woman Teri Coffey told the show that her mother was admitted to the Emergency Department six months ago today after suffering a heart attack.
She said she will “never, ever forget” what happened next for as long as she lives.
“When we got to the hospital, there was no room for them to actually bring Mum through,” she said.
“So the ambulance driver - it was a bit like the scene from an officer and a gentleman - he picked Mum up and carried her in his arms to a trolley.
“The place was absolutely jammers. It's just something I will never forget.
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Let's just take a moment to recognise that Harris' first response to her question and point was "well we appointed someone that's going to find staff we can blame" I dont side with Sinn Fein on any level but this weasel has to go!
Give ennis and Nenagh hospital more funding and staff and take the load of UHL
Mary Loo trying to be opposition 😂😂😂😂😂
Shes very 2 faced . I very never trusted her
The public is starting to see through sf.
Nenagh and Ennis hospitals in the past🙄🙄🙄.
Open them today and it's all solved.
Irish gombeen politicians and people still vote for them.we get the politicians we deserve.
Incompetent management at UHL is definitely a high contributing factor.
Like if you don't like mary
Shut up
Someone better tell McEntee and O Gormon that there is a crisis in Healthcare and Accommodation in Ireland the services are busting at the seems.
All poopascoop, doesn't matter how many staff were employed or how much money was thrown at the HSE, the girl still died, RIP.
😢😢😢
The HSE budget is up 70% and an extra 50,000 staff in 10 years. It doesn’t ever seem to make a difference. We have the 2nd most expensive health system in the world after the US with appalling outcomes. How about work practices, inflexibility, no increased productivity? It can’t all be the governments fault.
The whole hospital system is dysfunctional. It needs a high level consultant to go in and redesign the way things are done. More beds, more staff, more hospitals needed.
@@silviemcewan5193 Ireland has the highest number of nurses to patients in the OECD. They are in the wrong places and the unions won’t let them be re deployed. It’s crazy.
Pretending to care Mary,
Quite. SF are a party of pretence. I know, as I have been watching them for the last 50+ years. Regrettably they have convinced the under 40s that they have something to offer.
@@user-qb3yb8em8tAfter the past couple of years hate speech bill Yes yes referendum Calling concerned parents far-right ( no they are just RIGHT).
Supporting illegal undocumented economic migrants flooding this country, now she wants to bring all their families over too.
SF the biggest Traitors in Ireland.
McDonald's the axe trying to convince the forest that she is one of them
The hatchet is blunt with a large majority of these politicians in the dail. Couldn't cut their own grass even if they tried yet they think they represent the average Irish person 😂 Not a party between them worth voting for.
43 year old wait for apology to stardust victims, while effectively new victims are being created every day through the gross incompetency of government and HSE management.
Who is accountable for the lack of performance that Harris is directly pointing to as the source of the problem at UHL, and not funding or staffing, and why then is Harris not bringing them to account!
Punch & Judy
Staff shortages are due to accomodation shortages in Limerick
At what point do they realise that they need to stop. At what point do they realise that the other hospitals that previously had emergency departments need to be brought back again to 24hr Ed service. 41%, great what do you want, a pat on the back. The situation at that hospital will not end with this avoidable tragedy. It will take something far, far worse before what the cats & dogs on the street know will happen, happens & then and only then will actual, decisive action be taken.
Lost authority when asking for abortion for MEN 😭
Allow professionals from other countries, but residing in Ireland, to work immediately based on their original diplomas, without undergoing humiliating certification and qualification confirmation. There are so many of them out there. Often, these professionals have more practice and experience to meet the demand for specialists.
Yes Mohammed. Yes.
Hire people with no initial background checks or Garda vetting? In a healthcare setting? 🤔
@@jamesmeagher7424 I am talking about legal residents, didn’t say anything about illegal immigrants
don’t you need more professionals? Do you want waiting in queues and lines 8+ hrs? Do you like bear dental pain? Please do if you like
@@mishabirkin8879I said nothing about illegal immigrants either. What you’re suggesting is daft. Hiring people into a healthcare setting with no background checks or vetting. Also, it has nothing to do with nationality. I work in a healthcare setting myself and I had to undergo the vetting process like everyone else.
Send in the NHS.
The NHS is a third world sh*thole bubba.
They all become deaf in that job
No reply to the 3rd point which is critical! People go to emergency far too late because there are no sufficient GP or other places to go.
Opposition leaders😂😂😂,there all the same.....get them all out
Actually it doesn't matter how many people there are in the hospitals or money there just isn't enough.
Thats the way to do it.
Just thinking step front, no after step !
she got chairs, in the mater I got 27hrs waiting and afloor for a bed
This is utterly unacceptable
Surplus over the billions yet we dont pay our dept or help our own.. PRIVATE PENSION FUNDS
I’d add a fourth and Fifth solution, open back up the A&E the FG closed in Ennis 12 years ago,
Stop sending money to fund a proxy war in the Ukraine and divert that millions to the opening the A&E in Ennis and perhaps Nenagh too.
Maybe quick population growth and no extra resources contribute to a poor service.
Here our private NOT Socialistic wealthy hospital systems are paying for Philipino Nurses to come settle here and work in our Hospitals. We have the Catholic Churches and great schools OH and we don’t have the EU boot on our hospitals. You won’t get better hospitals..
Only here for the thumbs down for Newstalk.
I can't listen to any of this shower. Terrible government, terrible opposition. The country is in tatters
Funny you never refrained from commenting on the protest outside Roderics house ,you made a butchery of the gealth Service when you were there
Statistic 1st class, growing 44% from nothing is... nothing.
Give me S. Harris over Mary Loo anytime.
Traitors
@ @irishdefenceforces medical corps facility (training) intelligence 🤔📚 = because he's talking balls 😢
🇺🇸 I'd have him under 24hr surveillance .
The over crowding caused by your imagrations policies
Mary open borders lou macdonald
Brits out everybody else in .
This is about hospitals. Not immigration. Keep up
@@davidkavanagh189 SF bot
Its the traitours Muppet show called the dail
If only the same mindset of frontline workers was extended to universities too. Way to admin useless university 'admin' staff.