I (Patricia OLeary) was out on the main street Bray today continuing to drive the Save the 24 A & E Postcard Campaign at Loughlinstown Hospital and the public response was overwhelming. I am delighted that People Before Profit have and continue to do everything they can to preserve the 24 hour A & E at Loughlinstown Hospital and its not just lip service. Sharon Briggs, our very own Bray candidate in the forthcoming local elections next year 2014, was out on the main street with me, doing everything in her power to highlight this matter and inform the people of Bray that there is a protest organized for Saturday 23rd November 2013 at Loughlinstown Hospital at 2pm. People are very angry and concerned at the prospect of losing their local 24 hour A & E and they told us many fantastic stories of how they are alive today because of the wonderful life saving work of the doctors and nurses at the A & E after hours. We even spoke with medical people who were in no doubt that downgrading the A & E would most definitely result in loss of lives. This hospital service is essential and downgrading is just not an option for the people of Bray, Wicklow and South County Dublin. Apparently we are being told that an already overstretched St Vincents A & E is going to be the alternative. This proposal is preposterous and an insult to the taxpaying people of our community. It is our local 24 hour A & E, not Minister Reillys or the Governments or the Troikes and we want and will fight to retain it. Apart from the lunacy of proposing that Bray people attend St Vincents A & E after hours in an emergency, due to additional austerity cuts, Bray lost its number 45 bus service, the only bus service that passed right by St Vincents Hospital. We no longer have any kind of public transport to facilitate people requiring alternative after hours A & E services. I think its time to commit this government to the Lunatic Asylum!
Posted on: Sat, 09 Nov 2013 19:57:20 +0000
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