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EMERGENCY SERVICES AT
WEXFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL UNDER MORE SERIOUS THREAT THAN
EVER
Wednesday 27th May 2009
“The threat to emergency services at Wexford General
Hospital is even more serious that I believed to
date”, Labour TD Brendan Howlin said today.
“The leaked HSE report in yesterday’s Irish Examiner
stated that the Emergency Department at Wexford General
‘clearly lacks either clinical viability now or
sustainability into the future’.
“It is said in the Irish Examiner that this report has
been re-drafted four times, and concludes that all acute
care should be delivered in Waterford.
“This would mean the end of Wexford as a functioning
General Hospital. The largest population
base in the south-East would have no acute medical
services in our county. Instead Wexford would deal
with “non-acute care”. This would mean
that our A. & E. would be reduced to a “nurse-led
urgent care centre, open 12 hours per day, seven days a
week to treat minor illness and injury.
“This report will shock the people of Wexford, who
will certainly fiercely resist its implementation.
“I demand that the HSE set out its intentions for
acute care in the South-East without further delay. I
call for the publication in full of this leaked report
so that we can have a proper, democratic and open debate
about these critical issues for every person living in
our region.”
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