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National - Event Notice Thursday January 01 1970 National Protest March & Rally-For a Health Service we deserve and need![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Healthcare is a right not a privilege! Following on from the success of the March last 29th March and representative Conference 26th April the Public Health Care Campaign believes that we should continue the pressure. If we don't stand up for our rights and a better health service we won't get it.
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Off to the Dail to demand a decent health system.
Running order:
Songs as people assemble (Music by members of Aslan & The Brilliant Trees)
2 p.m.Parnell Square
Conor MacLiam pins bandana on banner for Susie Long
Speakers:
Prof John Crown, Consultant oncologist
Liam Doran, Irish Nurses Organisation General Secretary
Colm Seville, brother of Beverly Seville-Doyle.
Kevin Callinan, National Secretary, IMPACT
Noelle Duddy, Co-op Cancer Care North West
Joe Guillfoyle, National Campaign for Save St Luke's
Approx 3.30 p.m.Merrion Square
Songs while arriving
Speakers:
Louise O'Reilly, National Nursing Official, SIPTU,
Dr. Teresa Graham, SIN, Stop Infections Now Campaign, (MRSA),
Audrey Deane, Social Policy Advisor, St. Vincent de Paul Society,
Songs
Speakers
Janette Byrne, Patients Together,
Dr. Christine O'Malley, Consultant, Nenagh Hospital, Doctors Alliance for Better Public Healthcare
Walter Cullen, Unite trade union
Peadar McMahon, Health Services Action Group and Monaghan Hospital Community Alliance.
Songs
The marching order is
Front banners
Trade union and patients/hospital/health groups
Other groups and political parties
Full marks to the unknown volunteers for the work of distributing the leaflets for the march around the Infirmary Road area. However it seems that some of them at least do not have the heading indicating the organisers of the march, or have had the heading removed. There has been one complaint (the contact details were left on) about anonymous leaflets and anonymous events; an understandable one.
THE FAMILY of a woman who died in the toilet of the AE unit at Dublin's Mater hospital earlier this year after waiting hours for a bed has urged the public to turn out in large numbers for a protest march against health service cuts on Saturday.
VOLUNTEERS
Last Volunteers Meeting
6 pm Thursday 9th October, Liberty Hall, Dublin
Leafleteers and posterers needed
SPEAKERS
Speakers at the rally:
Prof John Crown, Consultant oncologist
Liam Doran, Irish Nurses Organisation General Secretary
Janette Byrne from Patients Together,
Conor Seville, brother of Beverly.
Kevin Callinan, National Secretary, IMPACT
Audrey Deane, Social Policy Advisor, St. Vincent de Paul Society,
Peadar McMahon of the Health Services Action Group and the Monaghan Hospital Community Alliance,
Louise O'Reilly, National Nursing Official, SIPTU,
Dr. Teresa Graham, SIN, Stop Infections Now Campaign, (MRSA),
Walter Cullen, Unite trade union
Conor MacLiam, husband of Susie Long, will place the first ‘bandana’ on a ‘bunting of bananas’ at the beginning of the march to remember all those who through late diagnosis or misdiagnosis are no longer with us.
Live music will be provided by ASLAN members and other artists.
BUSES
Irish Nurses Organisation and SIPTU Branches have been authorised to hire buses. INO and SIPTU members and local groups should contact the local SIPTU or INO Branch. Waterford Council of Trade Unions are running a bus up: contact the UNITE trade union in Waterford.
Two city centre postering expeditions:
Meet
3 pm Saturday outside Liberty Hall
11 am Sunday outside Liberty Hall
Volunteers meeting Thursday 6 pm Liberty Hall
087 4116357
healthcampaign@gmail.com
www.publichsc.blogspot.com
The flyer has those details. But it's OK to be tired.
Your Health - Your Protest
2 pm Saturday 11th October 2008
Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1.
Having recently brought my toddler to Aand E at the Lourdes, waiting 5 hours and then being charged 60 quid for it I definately want to go to this..
- but the flyer doesnt give a time or a place to start the rally (unless Im so tired I just cant find it)!
Please can you update it to give thse details. I feel really strongly about the state of the health service here, why doesnt Ireland have a National Health Service free for all people, with high quality care for all.
Seems to me that there is a lot more that should be 'happening' within OUR Health Service.
Unfortunately a Bad Attitude is Running Overtime ,Snobbery is Rife, even in Illness.
SAD BUT TRUE.
Message from Janette Byrne, former cancer patients and spokesperson for Patients Together :
Planning for the protest march of October 11th:
In recent years we have all heard of the horrendous way some cancer patients have suffered in our Health System.
* Late diagnosis. (Too late for our friend Susie Long and many others)
* Misdiagnosis
* No Beds
* Long waits for scans, chemotherapy, radiotherapy
* Some losing their lives not to cancer but to hospital acquired infections
As part of the ‘Public Health Service Campaign’s’ protest on the 11th of October and with your help we want to create a ‘bandanna bunting’
What’s involved:
* If you were a cancer patient you can bring a bandanna and pin it on with everyone else on the day.
* If you had a loved one who experienced cancer and you wish to pin a bandanna on their behalf that is fine also.
* Bandannas may be signed and include a message.
* We want to make this cancer patients support as large as possible.
* If you are unwell and unable to attend the protest you can post your bandanna to 82, Finglas Park Dublin 11
* Conor MacLiam, husband of Susie Long, will pin up the first bandanna before the march
Only with your support will this happen.
Lets make this protest the greatest ever. We did it for the Antiwar campaign, we did it for Irish Ferries, we even did it in support of Bewleys; now your health deserves your support.
Please forward this message to others
Janette Byrne Patients Together 085-7302798
The crisis in the health service goes on and on. For a first hand account of the experience of an elderly woman in the Mater this week see this link:- http://ballymunsocialist.wordpress.com/
Even getting a trolley in A&E after hours is now a privilege. And we're still months from the winter.
Let's build a big turn-out for October 11.
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE CAMPAIGN
- United for a First Class Public Health Service
Dublin Council of Trade Unions
ICTU Youth Committee
Patients Together
SECOND VOLUNTEERS MEETING
Next Thursday, 2nd October, at 6 p.m. in Liberty Hall.
Planning for postering of city and suburbs.
LARGE POSTERS FOR LAMPOSTS will be available.
Leaflets, window stickers and smaller posters also available.
For supplies contact below
healthcampaign@gmail.com
087 4116357
www.publichsc.blogspot.com
Your Health - Your Protest
2 pm Saturday 11th October 2008
Garden of Remembrance, Parnell Square, Dublin 1.
No cuts in Health spending in the budget!!
Please use, print out, etc.