Tánaiste says he is ‘mystified’ at recruitment embargo as 28,000 people have been brought in to health service since 2020
Tánaiste says he is ‘mystified’ at recruitment embargo as 28,000 people have been brought in to health service since 2020Sinn Féin TD Mairéad Farrell raised the case of 'Niamh' as she warned 'in the last three years the overcrowding alert was activated more times than any other hospital'. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times
She said that Niamh presented at the overcrowded emergency department with intense stomach pain, waiting over an hour to be triaged and five hours before she finally saw a doctor and another seven hours before she had emergency surgery. The incident happened last month. Ms Farrell said panic followed about how much she had been given before seven hours after she arrived she was referred to a gynaecologist. “It was only then that the possibility of an ectopic pregnancy was raised.”
Niamh said the hospital was not able to handle the number of patients at 6 am when she arrived. Ms Farrell said she told her “I’m lucky I went in early in the morning. If I’d gone later, I don’t know if I’d still be here.” The Tánaiste described Ms Farrell’s description of Niamh’s experience as “shocking in itself”, adding that it was clear she “went through an extraordinary traumatic and horrific journey from arrival to the emergency department and subsequent developments and treatment.”
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