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VE Day display called controversy in Royal Victoria Hospital this week<\/p>\n

Staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital have been reminded by management of their “obligation to foster a harmonious environment” after an unauthorised VE Day exhibit was displayed within one of the wards. <\/p>\n

The arrangement consisted of a Union flag draped over a small hospital trolley, as well as newspaper clippings, balloons and historic photographs attached to the wall behind it.<\/p>\n

It appeared in ward 5E this week, which is a unit that cares for the elderly, including patients with dementia.<\/p>\n

The Andersonstown News<\/a> first reported that \u2018it was put there by a member of staff acting without clearance from management\u2019. <\/p>\n

When asked about the incident, a spokesperson for the trust said: \u201cBelfast Trust staff became aware of a display in an area of the Royal Victoria Hospital.<\/p>\n

“This was removed and all staff will be reminded of their obligation to foster a harmonious environment for all patients staff and service users.\u201d<\/p>\n

VE Day is celebrated annually to remember the formal end of the Second World War on May 8, 1945, which saw the unconditional surrender of Nazi Germany to the Allied forces.<\/p>\n

Thursday was the 80th anniversary of \u2018Victory in Europe\u2019. <\/p>\n

Events have been taking place across Northern Ireland this week to mark the occasion. <\/p>\n

A full-scale replica of a Second World War Spitfire was on show<\/a> at the Stormont Parliament Buildings, and street parties, historical talks, parades and prayer services also took place throughout the region. <\/p>\n

\"VE<\/p>\n

VE Day display called controversy in Royal Victoria Hospital this week<\/p>\n

Watch: East Belfast Celebrates VE Day<\/p>\n

Belfast City Hall was lit up red on Wednesday night, and again on Thursday, and Stormont was lit in blue on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

A two-minutes silence was held at midday on May 8, and beacons were lit to represent symbols of hope on a day that commemorated the celebrations held, when war ended 80 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VE Day display called controversy in Royal Victoria Hospital this week Staff at the Royal Victoria Hospital have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[2378,5825,1144,15288,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-91985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-belfast","9":"tag-niamh-campbell","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-royal-victoria-hospital","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114487654107109700","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}