Image: TOM HONAN Image: TOM HONAN TÁNAISTE LEO VARADKAR has said he expects private hospitals to step up and provide ICU bed capacity if the public system needs it.
“Our message is that you were available in the first wave, you made your hospitals and your staff available in the first wave. We paid for that, but we are grateful for it. HSE boss Paul Reid said good progress has been made on an agreement with the private hospitals, stating that a number of private hospitals have signed up to the safety net agreement. He said they expect five more hospitals to sign up this week.
“You know, I don’t think that’s going to be necessary. Every single private hospital came on board back in the first wave and in those hospitals are doctors, nurses, therapists, people who dedicated their lives to saving lives, and on the boards of those hospitals, there are people who dedicated their lives to healthcare and saving lives. I’m absolutely confident that they will all make their facilities available,” he said.
Yeah especially cause ye boys fucked the health service for years and are robbing Peter to pay Paul 🤬🤬🤬
Welcome to Socilism Ireland and let's destroy the constitution.
Politicians should share with home and properties to fight homeless crisis, we may well need them all the time, anyone who is not willing to do so is a shame and should be named.
Could they not have been building a hospital since March with all this money,
Would t need to rely on private beds if him and his ill didn't run the public system into the ground make those who can afford it, reply in private health insurance.
We should have a properly funded public hospital system.
It shouldn’t have to be this way if our investment in hospitals was well considered and properly carried out we would have a system that could deal with these types of issues. 10 months ago we knew what was ahead but nothing was done to address it. These are not our hospitals.
Yes, everyone needs to pull together because Varadkar can't follow public health advice.
If we weren't such a Neo liberal shite hole we would have done what the Dutch did - Give us access to your hospitals or we are taking them. I guess that wouldn't be an option considering who owns these hospitals
Another pay out of OUR money to Denis O Brien and friends in the plan-When will this end ?
Denis O'Brien 💰
They were paid an exorbitant fee last year and went unused, they need to give the beds up now free of charge.
Nationalise them!
He's forgetting to tell you that you will pay for it, that payment from your tax will go to his friends.
Of all the things exposed as a sham during this crises its been neoliberalism, the very thing Leo champions is the very thing he is now fighting against for political survival.
Did we not pay them millions in a deal in March to fuckin do this and they weren't used? So why do they have to be asked to do it now ?
No shit Leo!