Hospital Services
Dail Éireann — 2022-03-31
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Peadar Tóibín (AON), Meath West

There were 105,000 adverse incidents in the hospital system last year. This means people were misdiagnosed, mistreated and given the wrong medication. It means people died or were disabled by those actions and that people are extra sick because of the misactions of the HSE. Which one of the Minister's extremely well-paid staff is responsible for this increase? Is there any accountability? I spoke to senior clinicians in the RCSI Hospital Group. They told me that the closure of Navan hospital emergency department will increase the number of adverse incidents in the group. The excuse for adverse incidents being a reason to close the emergency department is wrong. I ask the Minister to review the decision, to not gut hospital capacity during this time of crisis, to maintain the emergency department in Navan hospital and to invest to make it safer.

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Sitting date: 2022-03-31