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category national | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice author Saturday April 09, 2005 13:45author by Janette Byrne - Patients Togetherauthor email patientstogether at eircom dot netauthor address dublinauthor phone 0857302798 Report this post to the editors

A&E crisis

It is time to unite, we need to stop moaning about our health service and do something about it. Please Join the staff and patients in their lunch time protests next week.
see I.N.O website for details.

Lets all work together



Irish employers need to support protests.

I write today imploring employers to please give staff the extra time needed to attend the lunch time protest by nursing staff all across the country, staring next Tuesday the12th April from 1-1.30pm. This issue affects us all. I am one of the hundreds of thousands of people affected by our disastrous health service. We have hospitals where staff and patients are suffering in overcrowded, chaotic A&E departments. And the government chooses to bury its head in the sand and ignore our plight. Who will listen to our stories of torture? Who cares? Do you? We all know someone who has suffered in A&E .We have seen the pictures of indignity beamed on TV to our sitting rooms and we have read the numerous newspaper articles. Most of us tut tut and do nothing. We sympathise and do nothing. Well now we have the chance. The staff are taking to the streets in a desperate bid to make the government face it’s responsibilities to patients and staff alike. We need to support them. The reality is a lot of the elderly will not go to A&E and Cancer patients still battle for treatment and that precious hospital bed. We have a situation whereby people must locate a trolley and pillow minder before they can venture to the loo. How sad is this country, when in desperation the ill are forced to thieve a pillow, chair or trolley. Please don’t wait till it is you. Act now show the government we will not allow the staff and patients be treated like this. And don’t just take my word for it pop in to your local A&E, see what it would be like if you needed it today.

Don’t say you weren’t warned.


Janette Byrne

author by Mark Dyer - patients........... supporter.publication date Sun Apr 23, 2006 01:54author address 29 Goldsmith St., D 7.author phone 086-0732738Report this post to the editors

The A&E Crisis:
GP's direct our elderly sick loved ones to A&E as a matter of urgency in order to save their lives. Instead of LTC they are catapulted into the chaos of suffering, in a chair for 3 days ,in a corridor. Further, they are terrified out of their wits from the constant aggression; noise and lack of medical attention that spirals in the flux of mayhem and confusion at A&E. Each individual case is an epic tragedy, of abuse; disrespect and indignity to patient and family. The toll is death for some, or at the least their illness has been exaserpated to irrevocable.

The main problem is bed and staff capacity combined. The immediate provision of relief to our citizens who are ill is paramount. Humanity requires, an instant response to aid the sick. Now!

Case Record:
* My Father died in the Mater Hospital on 04 May 2004.
*JAN 2004; ..He was directed to A&E by his GP as a matter of urgency.
*He spent the next 3 days in a broken chair amidst overcrowding and construction work at A&E.
*Later admitted to a mixed ward. He was abruptly discharged after a week, still very ill.
**MARCH 2004: Re-directed to A&E by a Locum via ambulance. It was an EMERGENCY.
** He spent the next 7 days on a trolley before being admitted to a ward.
***I have not burdened you with the detail. No one cares enough to do anything to help unless they are the victims. Prove me wrong.
****My Father is : Patrick Dyer ,1924-2004 RIP. He deserved better. Patrick gave 80 years to humanity.

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