Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has described the figures released by the Health Service Executive regarding Tallaght Hospital as \u201cextremely worrying and another indication of the crisis facing the health system and patients in that system.\u201d<\/p>\n
Deputy Se\u00e1n Crowe said:<\/p>\n
\u201cTallaght Hospital has been operating under severe bed pressure or full capacity for 35% of the time since January earlier this year.<\/p>\n
\u201cFull capacity was supposedly an emergency measure that has become an everyday measure right across the hospital system.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast week Tullamore Hospital which has operated at 89% full closure, a 103 year old woman was left for 115 hours on a trolley<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is extremely worrying and another indication of the crisis facing the health system and vulnerable patients in that system.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis basically means that all elective surgeries proposed for the day are cancelled; and patients are put back again on a waiting list for their life changing operations because a bed is not available in the hospital.<\/p>\n
\u201cFull capacity means additional beds being put on wards with health and safety inevitably suffering and the added danger of cross infection with attention to detail more likely to be overlooked by hard- pressed staff.<\/p>\n
\u201cFull bed capacity means that there is additional pressure on staff to discharge patients to try and free up beds. It could mean patients being sent home earlier even if they are not ready and additional pressure being put on loved ones to bring ill patients back home even in situations when support is not available.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis week it also emerged that the Task Force established to investigate and respond to the bed shortage crisis had only met twice in the last year. This is unbelievable, unacceptable and needs to be addressed with urgency by the Health Minister Simon Harris and the HSE before the winter surge in demand kicks in.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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