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Anti-privatisation protest at RVH
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Saturday February 03, 2007 16:43 by Ciarán Ó Brolcháin
People Before Profit organised a picket today outside the RVH on the Falls Road, to protest plans to introduce the Private Finance Initiative to the hospital. Around 40 people, includling members of staff at the Royal, took part in the picket. There is currently a plan afoot to build the new Mother-and-Child ward at the hospital using PFI. This would be a travesty as you would only have to look at the car park in the RVH for an example of what privatisation will do. The car park was built using PFI and the company that owns the 20-year contract, NCPS, were able to recoup all of their costs within the first seven years. This company pays the RVH around £25,000-£30,000 a year for using the land, around 5% of the annual profits generated by the car park. Money that could go into the health serice, where it's much needed, instead goes into the coffers of a private company. And that's to say nothing of how workers would be treated under the scheme. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2looks great. Are there any details of the wedensday picket????
wednesdays picket will be from 12 - 1 outside the gates of the childrens hospital (falls Road)