Mary Harney – your health service is killing people
I have been listening to RTE’s Liveline programme over the last couple of days.
For any who don’t know about Liveline, it is one of those phone-in type programmes.
A woman wrote into them about her story. It is shocking.
I won’t print the e-mail here, because it is a long one. Instead, I beg you to read it here.
It is a very sad story. It is very depressing. It is very well written. It is written from the heart. It has driven me to the point of fury.
It is the story of our health system. This is the system that Mary Harney [our “Minister for Health”] is so proud of and which she claims is much improved.
OK, Mary. I defy you to read this story.
Read about the man who was given a greasy fry in hospital just after a triple bi-pass, despite asking for fish.
Read about the vegetarian who was fed cheese sandwiches in hospital, because they apparently had no alternative.
Read about the state of the toilets in the Mater, where the floor is swimming in urine all the time.
But these are minor matters.
Read about the woman who has been sentenced to death by cancer because of the waiting lists in the public health service, when a man [who had a more advanced stage of the same cancer] will live because he had private health insurance.
Read it Mary. And then tell me that the public health system is working.
I watched the news last night. There you were Mary – spending your time trying to get AXA to buy over BUPA. Oh yes. You like the idea of private health insurance. You encourage it. It takes the pressure off you. So you fart around with BUPA and AXA and the VHI while your real responsibilities are dying.
There was another item on the news too – the appalling number of people in our hospitals still waiting on trolleys. One 80 year old got a bed in hospital yesterday. She had been waiting on a trolley since Monday.
The government is awash with money at the moment. There are billions to spare. But not everyone can afford private health insurance.
God help them if they need hospital treatment.
Don’t get me f*ckin started.
The women is prime example of what’s wrong with irish society.
But then again the Irish people put here there.
They apparenty not only bend over but also eagerly spread their butt-cheecks in submission to the political fat-cats…
E.
This is heart wrenching stuff and makes me very very ashamed to be Irish. Thank you for posting this I had not heard it on the radio.
And she’s at it again…..
“Move your f*ck*ng Childrens Hospital from Crumlin to The Mater or we cut off your funding”.
Mary Harney is doing an excellent job of fighting the vested interest in the health service.
The real disgrace with the health service is that consultants are killing people by their constant refusal to change their working practices. That is a disgrace and kills people every day.
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My 30 year old friend has just been told she will have to wait at least 6 months to have a lump removed from her breast, she has already had breast cancer and hoped it was gone, now this news has really knocked her for six. She asked about going private which will cost her €1,500 to €2,000. Even then she will have to wait up to 3 months for surgery.
This girl could die whilst waiting for this surgery, how many more women in Ireland are under a death sentence because of the way the health system is being run here, we don’t seem to value human life anymore in Ireland.
Does anyone know if the waiting lists are as long in Northern Ireland and England?