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(this is the OECD criticism of http://www.dohc.ie)
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/84946
(this delineates current Green/FF/PD amalgamations)
I won't be sitting down waiting for them to take Crumlin Children's Hospital, Health-care
is about community need, not attracting budget and corporate financing. Ms Harney
has refused to look at re-structuring the HSE and Prof Drumm's Policy is supported by
Greens. What was told to me privately at the St Luke's protest by a green does not stand.
If political parties are incapable of forwarding a patient-centred , community - based
national health care service ( without clientelist bullshit) then they do not deserve to seek
mandate from the community they claim to represent.
RTE did not think to ask Ms Cooper-Flynn about isolation and anxiety being contributory factors to ill-health,
sure as long as the carers can feed themselves on a diet of corporate sponsored food and wall to wall telly
everything will be grand.
Women with query cancer will have to travel away from the elderly they care for.
Women with query cancer will have to travel from the regions in which their children are educated.
Will their be home helps with the heavy lifting?
will there be petrol vouchers?
will there be money given to help with after school clubs and childcare?
will there by funds for dietary considerations?
partners/husbands and kids work loads will increase in the teeth of a national cancer programme
which leaves out the whole North-West.
I personally think that RTE did not ask the questions but instead platformed the woman
kow-towing to the HSE in a shameless display of uncaring and ill-thought out support that
does not attempt to advocate on behalf of her constituents.
One couple I know in Mayo are wrestling with isolation and ill-health in which they get an
entitlement of two half-hours per week of home help, no -one to help with cooking and
shopping.
as I said at top of this piece, Ms Cooper Flynn has put the concerns of supporting a flawed health
policy above the needs of those she purports to represent. Ms Harney has singularly increased
the work load of women (who are in the main carers) and the Green Party with Finian Mc Grath
have unquestionally rolled out support for a two tier health system (budgetted 16 billion)
and 4 more years of this.
http://www.dohc.ie
Thanks for highlighting this scandal. I shiver to think what Mary Harney's privatisation scheme will mean for the country's Health services.
Mayo people, and people of the North West and every other disadvantaged area, please stand up and say NO, NO, NO to this retrograde step for our loved ones.
And more corruption in Kilkenny from a Fianna Fail Junior Minister - in fact it could be classed as an Act of Terror.
Some weeks ago my friend Martin Satelle, originally from Dublin and a former Member of the S.W.P., had a letter published in the "Kilkenny Advertiser" newspaper criticising Councillor Andrew McGuinness FF, son of Junior Minister for Trade and Commerce John McGuinness of Kilkenny.
Minister McGuinness lifted the phone, Martin's rent allowance was stopped.
After five week's campaigning, and with the help of socialist friends, Martin's rent allowance was restored.
Martin had criticised McGuinness for appointing his son as his advisor on a large State salary.
Martin, who is not online, wishes to thank all those who helped him.
The Mayo 'Locals' are giving non-stop coverage to the loss of services at MGH (Mayo General Hospital)
HSE has mapped it on their 'find a service page' and Wiki has a short set of links to the services.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_General_Hospital
MGH was designated for many years a 'centre of excellence' and praised as such by Professor Drumm,
in the same breath as his announcement of services rationalisation from Castlebar to Galway..
The day of the Breast cancer services protest the women carried a map, dividing ireland with an arbitary
red line that did not extend beyond Galway.
The Centres of Excellence , therefore are limited to Mhe South of the Island with reductions in
services to women north of this arbitrary line from mayo to Donegal, these areas include two
women TD's (one a Minister) : Mary Coughlan TD and Minister For Agriculture; and Beverley Cooper-Flynn
TD.
HSE Map of Acute Services
wikipedia is a contributory service, they look for factaul neutral contributions. I saw a link
to mayo general hospital in the comments above, maybe someone from mayo can go in
and update the political issues and the HSE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_General_Hospital
The last act of Bertie Ahern was to give Bev back her FF membership. I personally hope
that Brian Cowen makes her Minister for State at health, she can then aid ms harney in ensuring
the continuance of Govt health policy and of course re-build the grassroot of FF in
the North-west.
http://www.dohc.ie
RTE did not comment very much on the barringtons report, Barrington's is a private
hospital in Cork - unlike Portlaoise where most of the victims of health policy were
public patients or treatment purchase fund patients....
The release of the barringtons report coincided with the departure of bertie who stood over
the privatisation of public health care in ireland.
It was a good day to bury bad news - and the media of course were only too happy to oblige.
How can anyone be surprised at this?
now there is a 'Beverley' in FF, which means that they have gone up a syllable,
sure thats progress.
progress is part of the triad which includes prosperity and peace- but does not include
equality or debate.