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Campaign to keep Tallaght services heats up

Friday, 04 April 2008

Over 12,000 signed postcards were handed in to the Department of Health last week in protest against the downgrading of Tallaght Hospital.
The Tallaght Hospital Action Group used the opportunity to call on Dublin people to support the expansion of existing services at the hospital. The volume of postcards was evidence of the anger in the local community at the cuts in services, according to Dublin South West Sinn Féin representative, Seán Crowe.
“Tallaght Hospital is being downgraded and stripped of essential staff,” he claimed. “The hospital is short of physiotherapists, radiologists, anaesthetists, social workers, pharmacists, IT staff, clerical staff and nurses.”
The children’s hospitals at Tallaght and Crumlin are to be moved to the Mater by 2012.
The postcard campaign took place ahead of a major rally by the Dublin Congress of Trade Unions calling for “decent” public health services.

Doctors, nurses, hospital campaigners, political activists and members of the general public gathered on Saturday to demand better health services.
A spokesperson for the Department of Health said a high level framework brief for the new hospital indicated that all the requirements could be accommodated on the Mater site and still allow an expansion in capacity beyond the year 2021.
Meanwhile, cancer services at Tallaght Hospital were hit by delays after a specialist doctor suffered a minor accident.
It is understood that a consultant radiologist at the hospital broke his wrist in February, resulting in women being told that their check-ups would be delayed for at least two months.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the hospital said that some women had been contacted and told their check-ups had been deferred.
“There is not in fact any suspension of the breast unit service at Tallaght Hospital,” she said. “However, our specialist consultant radiologist has been temporarily disabled as a result of a minor accident, and in order to ensure that there are no diagnostic delays, urgent breast ultrasound examinations are being carried for us by another hospital in the meantime.”
The vast majority of women who were set to have their check-ups carried out at Tallaght have been told they will not be treated until late April at the earliest.

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