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Our Glorious Health System

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

So a friend of mine who lives in Cork has a lovely 3 year old daughter with  bowel condition that needs treatment.  They first attended A&E in Cork with the problem in July. After a three month wait, today they travelled from Cork to Dublin to see a consultant and get some tests done in Crumlin.

They waited in Crumlin for three hours, only to be told, just now, no beds, come back next Tuesday and heres the kicker, “maybe we can fit her in”.

God bless centralisation and our third world health care!

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Violence against women - Ireland long on silence short on action

Friday, November 24th, 2006

So the Taioseach and the Dail observe a minutes silence for the International Violence against Women day (25-Nov). But in the the same breath the Irish Times reports today (23rd November page 4) that the Sexual Assualt Treatment Unit (SATU) in Dubin, which is supposed to be manned 24×7 has been forced to close over the weekend for the past month.

So if you are raped you have to wait for up to 48 hours before you can be examined in order to collect the medical evidence that is vitally necessary in all rape prosecutions.

Hospitals say the problem is lack of funding, HSE says its lack of expert personnel.

Meanwhile women who are raped at the weekend must suffer on while somebody else sorts out this problem.

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