Wexford hospital blaze: Patients remaining at facility may be treated on site
“The Accident and Emergency Department is closed in WGH. If you require emergency care, please attend your closest alternative A&E.”, and an investigation is under way into where and how the fire started. Some 100 ambulances were involved in the effort to evacuate patients to other hospitals.
“We know they can certainly start getting back up and running in days. But obviously to get the 207 patients back in, it’s going to take probably weeks and months. But I can see the hospital turning this around. Certainly in the next couple of days, they’re going to start putting the building together again.
That assessment will take at least a day to determine what level of services can be restored and when.Meanwhile, the Cathaoirleach of Wexford County Council, Cllr George Lawlor, has commended emergency services for the “war-like effort” to evacuate patients and contain the fire which broke out at Wexford general hospital on Wednesday.
“It was a mammoth task,” she told RTÉ radio’s Morning Ireland. “And whilst it was chaotic, it was organised efficiently. “It just couldn’t have run more smoothly. And I’m sure there were things that we don’t know about, but for the most part it was about the preservation of life. And that was maintained.”My primary focus as the public representative will be the restoration of services.
“But I have to make the point that hospitals since the summer into the autumn and the winter have been operating at near 100 percent capacity. So it’s difficult when we hit a crisis point for hospitals to be able to respond. And that’s why patients had to travel far, because the capacity simply wasn’t in the hospitals in the region.”
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