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PD Failures in Women's Health Issues

category national | consumer issues | opinion/analysis author Tuesday November 06, 2007 18:39author by C Murray Report this post to the editors

From Neary to Porlaoise Via Sligo.

On the 04/09/07 there was a press release detailing a possible mis-diagnosis problem in relation to the mammogram service at Portlaoise Hospital, the press release said that there were possibly 5,000 women effected and there was no press release from Mary Harney's Department. The Hospital board and the HSE managed the timed release of materials including the fact that many of the patients had been on the Treatment Purchase Fund Scheme. This info emanated in the direct aftermath of Ms Harney's travelling to Barrington's Hospital in Cork where up to 1,000 women were similarly effected. Today there is a press release from DOHC which is written in response to emergent details of 8 women with a diagnosis of cancer who had been cleared and 19 awaiting second opinions.

http://www.dodc.ie/press/releaes/2007/200711102b.html
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A quick look back at 2006:-

Two rape victims in Sligo were transported to Dublin for forensic examination due to the closure of dedicated RCC and trauma units in that County, the DOHC had not been funding the units and did not allow for the training of forensic nurses in their capitation. The women were sent to the already over-stretched Rotunda Sexual Assault unit in Dublin.

In 2006 DOHC brought in a scaled compensation package for women who had caesarian sections and ovary removal by Dr Michael Neary, the woman at the head of our health department allowed for a sliding scheme wherin a woman who had removal of her uterus as a result of unecessary section at the end of her reproductive cycle got less than a young woman who had the same procedure at the beginning of the cycle thereby underscoring the value of her in terms of her abilty to reproduce. Interestingly no-one commented on this sly and indifferent commodification of women by MH.

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/82055
Dr Neary is now facing criminal charges whilst the whole system that held him in place in Our Lady of Lourdes hospital is still there and only two consultants who had not stopped or queried the removal of healthy uterus' and ovaries have 'retired' and are on pension packages.

The DOHC also promulgated an amalgamation programme, termed The Creation of Centres of Excellence for Health Care on three major Dublin Hospitals without delineating a programme for emergency care in the areas where hospitals will be lost;-

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/81630 ST Luke's, Crumlin Children's Hospital and Tallaght are effected, with no reply from either DOHC nor the HSE on provision of breathing clinics, wound dressing or dedicated emergency centres in the absence of A+E's.

The reply from Harney and HSE are in the links at:- http://www.indymedia.ie/srticle/81630

Today in the Dail Bertie is insistent that the only reply to the issue is further amalgamation whilst ignoring the issue of the two tier health system which has failed women with children in this state. He also says that a second opinion is necessary in terms of radiography without explaining how this will be provisioned in a collapsed health system which is run by a business woman and a highly paid unelected HSE- who are mandated by no-one to carry out huge decisions that effect everyone in the state and without recourse to the electorate.

Between the 4th of September 2007 and today there has been absolutely no responsibility taken by DOHC and indeed for ten crucial days Mary Harney completely dissappeared without leaving her junior in charge of responding or releasing information to people who are facing enormous issues with repurcussions for their children and extended < families.not one opposition TD asked for Ms Harney's resignation today, but waffled on about primary care and insurances. The huge difference between Ms Harney's travelling to Cork to assure patients that DOHC would explore the issue and her mismanagement of The Midland's Hospital issue indicates in practice a complete disregard for patient welfare unalleviated by any concern for patient care.

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 #   Title   Author   Date 
 1   December 13th     C Murray    Wed Nov 07, 2007 09:57 
 2   Try giving instead of taking.     Hugh Murphy    Thu Nov 08, 2007 09:53 
 3   agendas     C Murray    Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:47 
 4   Dublin Maps     C Murray    Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:38 
 5   DOHC and HSE contacts     C Murray    Thu Nov 08, 2007 16:08 
 6   Invalid criticism of Harney     Sceptic    Thu Nov 08, 2007 20:03 
 7   Defender     Jim O'Sullivan    Fri Nov 09, 2007 09:42 
 8   Do your homework skeptic     C Murray    Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:13 
 9   I read an Archbishop's Website!     C Murray    Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:26 
 10   Media Coverage     C Murray    Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:17 
 11   FF bully Tactics     C Murray    Sat Nov 10, 2007 10:47 
 12   I think everyone should send breast images to the PD's     Images    Mon Nov 12, 2007 19:27 
 13   We are being duped.     Jim O'Sullivan    Tue Nov 13, 2007 09:04 
 14   quickie response     C Murray    Tue Nov 13, 2007 09:53 
 15   Is this a Two-Tier Health Policy?????     C Murray    Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:23 
 16   Sligo women set to protest at loss of services today     C Murray    Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:11 
 17   Sligo and Letrim Protest at Downgrade.     C Murray    Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:56 
 18   The deprived north west     Sceptic    Wed Nov 21, 2007 22:43 
 19   Explain     Jim O'Sullivan    Thu Nov 22, 2007 07:59 
 20   Skeptic plays troll     Map it Jim    Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:10 
 21   realities     Sceptic    Fri Nov 23, 2007 00:27 
 22   Apartheid     Jim O'Sullivan    Fri Nov 23, 2007 08:14 
 23   Realities not partisan polemics     Sceptic    Fri Nov 23, 2007 09:13 
 24   quick comment     C Murray    Fri Nov 23, 2007 09:54 
 25   NewsTalk Poll     Mark C    Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:01 
 26   Words betray you     Jim O'Sullivan    Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:19 
 27   Don't Let her Cop Out     DOHC    Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:32 
 28   What gives best outcomes     Sceptic    Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:59 
 29   It is a matter of policy to respond to the need of population     150% rise in creche fees    Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:48 
 30   Truth     Jim O'Sullivan    Fri Nov 23, 2007 11:57 
 31   Jim     -    Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:10 
 32   What?     Marlboro Man    Fri Nov 23, 2007 12:44 
 33   The choice     Sceptic    Fri Nov 23, 2007 13:38 
 34   lots of noise     Domino    Fri Nov 23, 2007 14:03 
 35   Complex     Jim O'Sullivan    Fri Nov 23, 2007 18:06 
 36   Media reportage     C Murray    Sun Nov 25, 2007 18:19 
 37   Lean ar aghaidh , Patricia Mc Kenna     token    Tue Nov 27, 2007 13:51 
 38   -     John Gormley    Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:11 
 39   Solution     Jim O'Sullivan    Wed Nov 28, 2007 10:35 
 40   tiny problem there     -    Wed Nov 28, 2007 12:23 
 41   Giving a Child a box of Matches     -    Thu Dec 06, 2007 09:44 
 42   16.156 Billion Euros     C Murray    Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:35 
 43   Galway Dublin Line     Sceptic    Thu Dec 06, 2007 20:52 
 44   Lets move from Breaat cancer to Prostate Cancer     C Murray    Fri Dec 07, 2007 09:54 
 45   Making a List..     C Murray    Fri Dec 07, 2007 19:52 
 46   Simplifications     Sceptic    Fri Dec 07, 2007 21:00 
 47   Skeptic Troll     C Murray    Fri Dec 07, 2007 21:23 
 48   linked     elisa    Fri Dec 14, 2007 09:53 
 49   A matter of controversy not rights.     Sceptic    Fri Dec 14, 2007 19:50 
 50   media link.     PD F-a-i-l-u-r-e-s    Fri Dec 14, 2007 20:02 
 51   Anglo-Irish Co-operation?     re skeptic    Fri Dec 14, 2007 20:29 
 52   Priest ridden? - not true     Sceptic    Fri Dec 14, 2007 21:48 
 53   Septic, you're boring me now     wageslave    Fri Dec 14, 2007 22:32 
 54   Bored?     Sceptic    Sat Dec 15, 2007 09:26 
 55   harney     troll    Sat Dec 15, 2007 11:20 
 56   Blaming the wrong target     Sceptic    Sun Dec 16, 2007 18:31 
 57   Reports on Midland's Published     C Murray    Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:07 
 58   “Amazingly both Professor Drumm and Mary Harney are still in their jobs!”     Sceptic    Wed Mar 05, 2008 12:32 
 59   Skeptic!     C Murray    Wed Mar 05, 2008 18:48 
 60   16-1     C Murray    Sat Mar 29, 2008 19:34 
 61   HSE and Lourdes hospital     C Murray    Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:31 
 62   Don't overlook the successes of the health service!     Sceptic    Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:43 
 63   Rabbitte     C Murray    Mon Mar 31, 2008 13:00 


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