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national | rights, freedoms and repression | event notice Saturday April 09, 2005 13:45 by Janette Byrne - Patients Together patientstogether at eircom dot net dublin 0857302798

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