Eleven ambulances were parked outside the Emergency Department of Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda and couldn't leave because there are no beds or trolleys for their patients inside.Read More:'Consider alternatives' - Tallaght Hospital A&E at 'full capacity' as patients ready for discharge await nursing home places
But none of the ambulances could leave and respond to other 999 calls until they had their ambulance trolleys back."Eleven ambulances at one stage were lined up outside the A&E at the Lourdes hospital and none of us could go anywhere. "No patient should be left in an ambulance outside the hospital because there are no beds available in any civilised country.
Earlier this week, 17 consultants at the Lourdes Hospital wrote a letter to the HSE over their plans to downgrade nearby Navan Hospital and to move more emergency patients from Navan to the Lourdes.
People are protesting for the wrong things. Fine Gael said they would end the trolley crises in 2007 if they got into power Now we don't even have trolleys patients are out in the ambulances
Nephet with the former CMO wasted 2 years saying that increasing the hospital capacity is not the answer to our problems. Are they still available to answer some questions and are there any journalists willing to aks them?
oooh - Yuk - filthy MSM alert
Now dats bad
Or lack of doctors. Worst health service in Europe how are you not embarrassed ?
Of course they could leave of there was a modicum of organisation in the hospital.
paddymacc1 Some country, Ireland is open we are told but it's hospitals are almost closed to the sick,no vetting,no limits ,yet no room, ridiculous dangerous mismanagement. I wonder how they'll twist issues like this on RTE to blame the people ?👎
bring back Oliver Cromwell
Health matters are in crisis in Ireland & UK …. Its not just ‘coincidence’ nor ‘political fault’ - these Health Services & systems need fundamental redesign ….. they are just too big to manage efficiently!
Thank you fiannafailparty FineGael the health service is now 100% destroyed for the Irish people. Yet another win for your team!
Unimaginable.
Same thing in Letterkenny, Paramedic told me as we waited there the other night, he and his colleague picked up one person, sat for 10 hours with the patient in the ambulance, didn't even see the person go in as shift ended and two more ambulance staff took over GregHughes2
Bringing in an extra 80 to 100,000 people to the country won't help either! Only an incompetent Government doing that without consulting those on the front line of hospitals, schools, doctors, dentists etc.
Government response:
No need to worry, our healthcare & dental care system is just one of the worst in the world and one of the most expensive in the world, while the waiting times are the longest in the world as well. The left-wing liberals from FF/FG/GP, as usual, deliver “high-class” performance.
We have the worst waiting times in the world
MickieMartin007 Similar to Beaumont Hospital
Irish health care is a shambles. Yet those plonkers that run our country in Dublin get away with it. Only in Ireland.
Is this any surprise, what's it going to be like when 10s of thousands more illegals enter and more Ukrainian with serious health issues
Was there a reason or is this normal.
If Irish TDs were forbidden to have private health insurance, we'd soon see a more focused effort to remedy our ailing 'healthcare' system. Let them take their chances on trolleys in crowded corridors like the rest of us Plebs.
And the future Taoiseach is clubbing...
I hate those 'Far Right' ambulance drivers. Why should a lack of beds be an excuse to not overflow the 'Defunct' system 😡😡
They are waiting to retrieve trolleys. Same in Beaumont hospital. Having spare generic trolleys might be an idea
Absolute travesty that this is happening all the while our government are in the process of closing Navan emergency dept also..they cannot find the money for more beds but can afford millions of euro to house the incoming migrants.. the whole thing is a mess.
With the population growing at an enormous rate in louth and East Meath this is shite show
Why is there no lockdown this time? Pandemic of the vaxxed with heart problems?
Patients sleeping on hospital floors helped cause the last election. But this time there's no appetite for one. Strange how Mary Poo and the government-in-waiting are so patient.
What a shit show of a country, fill the country up of foreigners call them asylum seekers trying to escape Georgia were there is no war and Irish peoe suffer
Should be blamed on our government. As every winter over the last decade+, a nightmare for getting beds.
Ah well. At least we helped the lads from Georgia, Nigeria and Pakistan.
JohnLalor18 Are all the hospitals full of migrants?
Stephen Donnelly, 2 years in the job and I don't think it could get any worst for you 😡
nobody clapping Dr (death) holohan now
Isn't there beds on the ambulances 😢
But surely they would be deployed and if necessary sent to nearest hospital
Let's give management more pay rise 🙄
The injection is making people so ill. 2023 will be a very tragic year for so many. They can’t hide this any longer.
Elderly bed blockers are to blame. Families won't take responsibility for them and nursing homes are closing due to energy costs.
Lack of beds or more are sick then normal due to a poisoning immune suppressant vaccine programme that they have all took part in
Who’s filling the beds?
DonnellyStephen this is inexcusable
And still they want to close the A&E in Navan hospital. Where is the sense in that!?! Look after your people Ireland!!! Step up to the plate and just use common sense! It's not rocket science !!!
But but but the shinners
What a government we have.
Donnelly needs to resign
FFG wanna shut navan and send all from that area to this...!
rosdub No A&E in the Louth Hospital in Dundalk, Monaghan hospital and next up is Navan . All will be funnelled to Drogheda . MichealMartinTD LeoVaradkar donnelllystephen they were all warned this would happen. How many lives are they risking
To the paramedic who asks “What are the HSE and the Minister for Health doing?', what can they do? Some of these people in ambulances are frequent flyers. They’ll have cost the taxpayer millions by the time they pop their clogs.
This will get worse in Drogheda as the Government proceed to close A & E in Navan hospital which means we will have no A & E in Co. Meath . An absolute disgrace and a very scary situation.
Yet the borders remaim open for any foreign criminal to claim asylum
I blame those pesky tories and that damn brexit
This was happening in the Mater Dublin 7 in 2019 with my late mother absolute joke
The government of Ireland need to be taken out of office straight away. They are killing people because of their very poor choices. It’s disgusting to call myself irish.
Is it de covid back is it? Or is it the same sh*tshow from de HSE as usual? Sure it's great that lad did such a good job and now works for EY, giving businesses advice on how to operate more effectively.
Smith Mundt Modernization Act
Another Fine mess DonnellyStephen
We have needed these extra ambulances and extra beds too for years, We have a budget surplus, Why the F**K is the health service so underfunded? Is this a deliberate population reduction excercise or what? Buy more ambulaces is surely the solution
Brought to you by FF FG Labour Greens PD's Anyone else in power the last 20 years I've missed! Or is this SF fault too 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Fucking disgraceful
It’s the same at the hospitals most days
Didn't our health service get 20 billion in the last budget? Where is that money gone?
Keep voting FFFGSFLabPBP
The truth is that healthcare in Ireland is a big problem, 90% of the staff are immigrants and students. I was impressed and the hours in the corridors are a nightmare, while in Spain healthcare is free and people complain! tremendous reality!
IrexitFreedom The is planned by your NWO/WEF puppet government. Causing the population massive pain and discomfort to enact draconion rules and regulations to bludgeon the population into submission to the NWO sick utopia.
Always money for war, lockdowns, and bank bail outs though.
Wonder what is making them sick I'm baffled
The nurses are ready
We told people that the lockdowns and vax pass would make Irish hospitals worse. Thousands will die in Jan.
Blame the anti vaxxer and those pathetic selfish clowns that couldn’t be bothered to wear a mask. Leave them in the street and pick up those that had the sense to follow medical advice. They wouldn’t want to go to hospital anyhow sure hospitals are part of the scam don’t you know
Toibin1 UnityakaAontu PeterAontu AontuCo
Ireland can afford to spend billions on foreign people but not on beds for Hospitals. Irish Govt are criminally negligent and wasteful. They're destroying Ireland.
Eh two weeks to flatten the curve and let the HSELive prepare ...... again 🙄
They probably have the migrants in them.
SeanCroweTD MichealMartinTD this is the shit show that your minister for health stands over! How can patients from Navan hospital be sent here? Navan A&E must be kept open!!!
johnjoechad Similar scenes outside of Tallaght University Hospital a number of weeks ago while desperate families & individuals waited & waited long minutes & long hours for medical aid
MichealMartinTD you're doing a fine job 👏🏻
paddymacc1 This is what happens when they finished covid scam
With the huge amount of migrants coming to Ireland filling up hotels this Government are going to need to start building more hospitals and increase capacity.
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