“Whatever funding is required will be provided.” There is “significant” damage to WexfordGeneralHospital and it is “hard to say” when services will return. DonnellyStephen on PatKenny
Speaking outside the hospital this morning, Health Minister Stephen Donnelly said it appears there were ‘no fatalities, no casualties and no injuries’.
“Most importantly there have been no fatalities, no casualties and the latest information we have is that we have had no injury either from smoke inhalation or anything else from any patients, their families or from any staff. “They are areas that include over half the inpatients beds, the endoscopy unit, the maternity wards [and] the services into the critical care beds.
“There is mechanical damage, for example, to pipes, there is electrical damage – not just to the electrics in the walls but to some of the very sophisticated machinery and some of that is quite new,” he said.
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