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Healy-Rae says HSE “lacking compassion”
Michael Healy-Rae TD has accused the Health Service Executive of being untruthful and lacking compassion as pressure mounts on the HSE to utilise Killarney’s vacant hospital beds.
Deputy Healy-Rae says the HSE are being misleading by referring to “open” beds at the hospital as opposed to occupied beds. According to the independent TD, there were 17 vacant beds in Killarney District Hospitals as of July 30.
“The HSE management is now operating with a complete lack of compassion and human kindness when it comes to dealing with patients and the excellent staff there can only deal with what resources they are given,” he said.
“The hospital has to be put working at 100% capacity but even that in its self is not enough as that will not deal with the bed requirement in our county
“We also need to open up again the hospital to deal with minor treatments that are needed which will result in taking pressure off our over burdened A&E in UHK Tralee.”
As highlighted in the Killarney Advertiser over the past number of weeks, SIPTU’s Branch Manager of Kerry Hospitals Donie Doody has said that Killarney’s empty beds should be used to take pressure of University Hospital Kerry. Speaking to the Advertiser on July 27, Mr Doody said that he believed there were 30 vacant beds in Killarney.
He had never seen so many unused beds in the town in his life, he added.
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