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STOP THE CUTS: - Save St.John's A&E, - Stop Co-location at the Regional (PUBLIC FORUM)
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Tuesday July 22, 2008 19:45
by Limerick Health - Campaign for a Real Public Health Service
limerickhealth at gmail dot com
Pery's Hotel, Glentworth St., Limerick
086-8064801
Come to the Public Forum: Tuesday, July 29th, 7:45pm, Pery's Hotel, Limerick
On Tuesday July 29th, a public health forum will be held in Pery's Hotel, Glentworth Street at 7:45pm to discuss the health cuts and crisis in the mid-west and to try to launch a campaign against them.
Titled "Stop the Cuts: Save St.John's A&E, No to Co-location at the Regional" the forum will hear from prominent local and national health workers and campaigners, including local consultant and opponent of co-locaton, Dr. Gerry Burke. Also speaking at the forum will be Ciaran O'Dea of the Ennis Hospital Action Group and Michael Murphy of the Campaign for a Real Public Health Service (CRPHS), which is organising the event. The Nenagh Hospital Action Group, Friends of St.Itas as well as the general public are also invited.
The forum comes just after the announcement that two new units at St.Ita's hospital in Newcastle West, costing a total of €4.5 million, may lie idle indefinitely due to lack of HSE funding for staffing. It also will take place amidst growing unease regarding the future of St.John's A&E, as well as those in Ennis and Nenagh.
Speaking about the forum, Michael Murphy, national organiser of the CRPHS said: "Our public health service is under attack, not least in the Mid-West where three public A&Es face Harney's axe, whilst three private hospitals are being built. This meeting is a great chance to hear from those involved in the health service about the impact of the cuts, co-location and privatisation. With a quarter of beds at St.John's hospital already gone, and 112 more hospital jobs being cut in Limerick, now is the time to build an active campaign, locally and nationally."
The Campaign for a Real Public Health Service was established at a National Conference organised in April which included a wide array of health campaigners, from Peadar McMahon of the Monaghan Hospital Action Group to health analyst Marie O'Connor. According to Mr. Murphy the conference "was organised following a mass meeting in Dublin addressed by Prof. John Crown, Dr. Orla Hardiman and Joe Higgins. The conference agreed to launch the campaign around the country. The group in Cork has already organised a protest of 500 calling on the government to open the Mercy A&E. This forum is a step towards building a similar, strong action group in Limerick, to work with others in the Mid-West to build a movement for a top quality public health service."
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Jump To Comment: 1This Forum is a great chance to hear from those involved in the health service and health campaigns, and to learn more about the health crisis and cuts in the Mid West. It is also a chance to discuss the alternative to this agenda and how we can stop the cuts.
Our health service is under attack
- Government threatening to shut St.John’s, Ennis and Nenagh A&Es
- A quarter of beds in St.John’s already closed, plus services taken away from Nenagh and Ennis.
- Recruitment ban is already hitting hard, now the HSE says 150 more jobs may go in Limerick
- Ward in St.Joseph’s shut as it had missing windows and moss growing by patient’s beds
Our Health - for sale
- The HSE and Government are consciously running our health service into the ground, and helping a US-style system rise out of the wreckage
- Public land at the regional is being given to a private hospital, which will leach off the public hospital, cherry picking the most profitable procedures and taking the best staff
- Two other private hospitals are being built in Limerick: one on the Dock Rd., and one in Adare
The Campaign for a Real Public Health Service
- The CRPHS is a broadbased campaign open to all. The idea of the campaign came from a mass public meeting in January in Dublin
- Flowing from that a national conference was organised in April, which agreed to launch the campaign around the country
- This forum is another step towards that. It will create a space for discussion on how we can organise to stop the cuts. Make sure you come
Now is the time to fight back
- Emergancy action is needed to reverse the cuts and end the crisis.
- We cannot wait any longer – by the next election the mid-west will have lost 3 pulic hospitals, and have 3 new private hospitals, unless we stop it.
- We need to turn the mass opposition to health cuts, into a mass movement of health workers, patients, and the public to defeat this government’s health policy.
JPEG of Limerick Health Forum Leaflet
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