HomeIrelandDr Muiris Houston is imploring people NOT to attend emergency dept at University Hospital Limerick as they are under-resourced/incapable of dealing with patients. How is this acceptable in a first world country? Who are we holding accountable for this failure?
Dr Muiris Houston is imploring people NOT to attend emergency dept at University Hospital Limerick as they are under-resourced/incapable of dealing with patients. How is this acceptable in a first world country? Who are we holding accountable for this failure?
May 6, 2024
Dr Muiris Houston is imploring people NOT to attend emergency dept at University Hospital Limerick as they are under-resourced/incapable of dealing with patients. How is this acceptable in a first world country? Who are we holding accountable for this failure?
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FYI, they’re announcing that if you need emergency care please travel to your nearest VHI or Laya Healthcare centre for treatment. So people are being told to go to Cork or Galway for a decent A&E?! What a cock up. A young woman has died needlessly FFS because of this bollocks. RIP Aoife Johnston.
But… but… GDP
Why are people attending for non emergency issues?
Hang on. We have people posting from hospital complaining about waiting ages in the ED because people appear to be there with minor complaints and it’s a disgrace. Now, when they tell people not to attend with minor complaints, you say it’s a disgrace.
🤡
I get that people attend A&E for silly things quite often and clog up the system, but it’s been barely over a week after the coroner ruled the death of Aoife Johnston at UHL a medical misadventure. There’s evidently major resourcing problems still present.
Heads need to start rolling at the HSE.
Well that’s embarrassing
Centre of excellence… Think we should close more local hospitals ..told them that, when they were closing Ennis and Nenagh emergency departments..now here we go..
Hospitals do this all the time. This is a non story.
The advice given in the first paragraph is the same as essentially always given.
It boils down to “only go in case of an emergency “.
Plenty of people ignore this advice, which slows down the care to real emergency cases.
CUH tell people not to go to A&E unless they absolutely have to, on a semi regular basis.
A middle-aged gent, living close to UHL, put it to me last week that he wouldn’t go there. He said people would ‘prefer to die at home’.
Lack of access to timely affordable medical care is really making me consider emigrating to somewhere sandy. At least where my wife and I can see a doctor.
The people who voted for it and tolerate it.
Politicians are only acocuntable if they’re HELD accountable an they’re not going to do something that costs money unless they’re threatened (that they might lose their job) and at the moment, they don’t.
Friend of mine works in CUH the stories I hear 🙉🙉 act hard to believe we don’t have more horror stories coming out seems our health system is running on fumes some days
What prevents Gov from granting Stamp 4 visas to certain no of non-EU doctors abroad after they pass a qualifying test? Many Middle Eastern countries implement such programs. I am certain there would be interested candidates for Stamp 4 or CSEP under this initiative.
We have hours long waits in the US too, often up to 12 hours. Mental health patients actually have to wait 3 days in the ER while waiting for an inpatient bed.
Nenagh, Ennis and St. John’s A&E need to reopen and UHL model needs to be upgraded
We need to raise taxes and give the HSE more money. That’ll solve it.
Are VHI or Laya willing to take non-customers? If so who is paying. It sounds like another way to funnel money to private companies.
It’s always been like this, zero accountability in the HSE. Terrible it costs peoples lives.
This seems more like don’t go to the ED unless you have a serious emergency.
That’s been the advice for the last decade. It’s criminal at this point. Hopefully the private hospital in Castletroy will alleviate some of the pressure
While our housing situation is diabolical, it’s our health system that is our biggest shambles, imo.
Dont forget our current taoiseach and newly resigned taoiseach were both ministers for health and helped things get worse and worse.
It’s not the publics responsibility to make sure there’s enough beds for people in A&E.
If my leg was hanging off I wouldn’t sack off getting treated just because a politician told me so.
Not enough beds? Figure it out. Don’t ask the public to endanger themselves for fear they may take a bed from someone else, especially when the government is solely responsible for hospital funding/resourcing.
Our taxes more than entitle us to be taken care of. The public aren’t the solution, do your damn job maybe??
The mismanagement of the HSE is criminal, as is the deliberate attempt to push the working population into health insurance. Shocking the shit we put up with in this country.
First World country? Not anymore.
People look down on other countries and their healthcare. I have gone twice to Lithuania for surgeries, and will be going back. I had one hip replaced last year and I need the other done. If I had left it to the HSE I’d be in a wheelchair right now. The treatment and attention I received was second to none. My recovery was excellent because of the post op physio and care.
Our healthcare system has collapsed. Even paying privately for assessments for my son the waiting lists are long and the assessments were hopeless. My 5 year old was referred for an ultrasound about 9/10 months ago. He’s now 6 and I haven’t heard a word.
Shameful.
There are so many things wrong that are causing this and I don’t want to in any way mitigate the Health Ministry’s direct blame but other factors are making it worse.
* The housing issue in Limerick (as in all of Ireland) makes recruitment difficult.
* Our medical system has for far too long overworked junior doctors to the point of abuse and the rational of “that’s how we did it” is akin to hazing. It is no surprise to see them going abroad for better treatment and wages.
* This also goes for nurses to varying degrees
* Near half of the medicine places in Ireland go to Canadians with the expressed intent of returning to Canada after their education. Yes the universities profit from this but at the cost of a significantly reduced annual cohort of doctors that will practice in Ireland.
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FYI, they’re announcing that if you need emergency care please travel to your nearest VHI or Laya Healthcare centre for treatment. So people are being told to go to Cork or Galway for a decent A&E?! What a cock up. A young woman has died needlessly FFS because of this bollocks. RIP Aoife Johnston.
But… but… GDP
Why are people attending for non emergency issues?
Hang on. We have people posting from hospital complaining about waiting ages in the ED because people appear to be there with minor complaints and it’s a disgrace. Now, when they tell people not to attend with minor complaints, you say it’s a disgrace.
🤡
I get that people attend A&E for silly things quite often and clog up the system, but it’s been barely over a week after the coroner ruled the death of Aoife Johnston at UHL a medical misadventure. There’s evidently major resourcing problems still present.
Heads need to start rolling at the HSE.
Well that’s embarrassing
Centre of excellence… Think we should close more local hospitals ..told them that, when they were closing Ennis and Nenagh emergency departments..now here we go..
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/members/tds/
Hospitals do this all the time. This is a non story.
The advice given in the first paragraph is the same as essentially always given.
It boils down to “only go in case of an emergency “.
Plenty of people ignore this advice, which slows down the care to real emergency cases.
CUH tell people not to go to A&E unless they absolutely have to, on a semi regular basis.
A middle-aged gent, living close to UHL, put it to me last week that he wouldn’t go there. He said people would ‘prefer to die at home’.
Lack of access to timely affordable medical care is really making me consider emigrating to somewhere sandy. At least where my wife and I can see a doctor.
The people who voted for it and tolerate it.
Politicians are only acocuntable if they’re HELD accountable an they’re not going to do something that costs money unless they’re threatened (that they might lose their job) and at the moment, they don’t.
Friend of mine works in CUH the stories I hear 🙉🙉 act hard to believe we don’t have more horror stories coming out seems our health system is running on fumes some days
What prevents Gov from granting Stamp 4 visas to certain no of non-EU doctors abroad after they pass a qualifying test? Many Middle Eastern countries implement such programs. I am certain there would be interested candidates for Stamp 4 or CSEP under this initiative.
We have hours long waits in the US too, often up to 12 hours. Mental health patients actually have to wait 3 days in the ER while waiting for an inpatient bed.
Nenagh, Ennis and St. John’s A&E need to reopen and UHL model needs to be upgraded
We need to raise taxes and give the HSE more money. That’ll solve it.
Are VHI or Laya willing to take non-customers? If so who is paying. It sounds like another way to funnel money to private companies.
It’s always been like this, zero accountability in the HSE. Terrible it costs peoples lives.
This seems more like don’t go to the ED unless you have a serious emergency.
That’s been the advice for the last decade. It’s criminal at this point. Hopefully the private hospital in Castletroy will alleviate some of the pressure
While our housing situation is diabolical, it’s our health system that is our biggest shambles, imo.
Dont forget our current taoiseach and newly resigned taoiseach were both ministers for health and helped things get worse and worse.
It’s not the publics responsibility to make sure there’s enough beds for people in A&E.
If my leg was hanging off I wouldn’t sack off getting treated just because a politician told me so.
Not enough beds? Figure it out. Don’t ask the public to endanger themselves for fear they may take a bed from someone else, especially when the government is solely responsible for hospital funding/resourcing.
Our taxes more than entitle us to be taken care of.
The public aren’t the solution, do your damn job maybe??
The mismanagement of the HSE is criminal, as is the deliberate attempt to push the working population into health insurance. Shocking the shit we put up with in this country.
First World country? Not anymore.
People look down on other countries and their healthcare. I have gone twice to Lithuania for surgeries, and will be going back. I had one hip replaced last year and I need the other done. If I had left it to the HSE I’d be in a wheelchair right now. The treatment and attention I received was second to none. My recovery was excellent because of the post op physio and care.
Our healthcare system has collapsed. Even paying privately for assessments for my son the waiting lists are long and the assessments were hopeless. My 5 year old was referred for an ultrasound about 9/10 months ago. He’s now 6 and I haven’t heard a word.
Shameful.
There are so many things wrong that are causing this and I don’t want to in any way mitigate the Health Ministry’s direct blame but other factors are making it worse.
* The housing issue in Limerick (as in all of Ireland) makes recruitment difficult.
* Our medical system has for far too long overworked junior doctors to the point of abuse and the rational of “that’s how we did it” is akin to hazing. It is no surprise to see them going abroad for better treatment and wages.
* This also goes for nurses to varying degrees
* Near half of the medicine places in Ireland go to Canadians with the expressed intent of returning to Canada after their education. Yes the universities profit from this but at the cost of a significantly reduced annual cohort of doctors that will practice in Ireland.
Is there anyway we can pin this on SF?