{"id":264,"date":"2011-06-26T20:20:52","date_gmt":"2011-06-26T20:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-more-resouces-needed-after-coroner-highlights-hospital-failure\/"},"modified":"2011-06-26T20:20:52","modified_gmt":"2011-06-26T20:20:52","slug":"crowe-more-resouces-needed-after-coroner-highlights-hospital-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/crowe-more-resouces-needed-after-coroner-highlights-hospital-failure\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowe more resouces needed after Coroner Highlights Hospital Failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crowe\u00a0 more resouces\u00a0needed<\/strong> after Coroner\u00a0Highlights Hospital\u00a0Failure <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has supported comments made today by Dublin county coroner Dr Kieran Geraghty who described Tallaght Hospital as being a \u201cvery dangerous place to be for anybody, let alone a sick patient\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Crowe, who lives in Tallaght has long campaigned for additional resources for the Hospital and said that the views expressed by Dr Geraghty represented a \u2018staggering failure\u2019 on the part of Senior Hospital Management,\u00a0the Health Service and successive Governments. <\/span><\/p>\n

Dr Geraghy\u2019s comments were made after Tallaght resident Thomas Walsh died\u00a0last March after being admitted to Tallaght Hospital with severe ankle pain. <\/span><\/p>\n

The Court\u00a0heard that a\u00a0\u2018virtual ward\u2019\u00a0 was created, leaving large numbers of sick patients in hospital corridors while awaiting a bed in\u00a0the hospital system. <\/span><\/p>\n

Deputy Crowe said:<\/p>\n

\u201cLast year\u00a093,000 patients\u00a0were treated in Tallaght\u2019s Accident & Emergency \u00a0Unit, the highest number of people treated in any hospital\u00a0in the State and nearly twice the number\u00a0compared to\u00a0Beaumount Hospital, which treated 52,000 people.<\/span><\/p>\n

These figures\u00a0give\u00a0us a snapshot \u00a0and\u00a0some\u00a0indication\u00a0of the pressure that Tallaght Hospital and its staff\u00a0are currently working \u00a0under.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sadly the\u00a0Health Care system and allocation of resources doesn’t reflect any of this.<\/span><\/p>\n

Currently Tallaght Hospital has\u00a0approxmately\u00a0100 Consultants\u00a0\u00a0yet \u00a0Beaumont which is clearly not as busy\u00a0has\u00a0139 and normally there is there is 3 or\u00a04 trainee Doctors under each Consultant. <\/span><\/p>\n

Looking at these figures it would appear that Tallaght is clearly\u00a0 getting a raw deal.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0is the busiest Trauma hospital in Ireland, yet this is not reflected in the funding it receives and there is a\u00a0 shortage of\u00a0personnel throughout the\u00a0hospital system. The medical staff who are currently employed\u00a0 are stretched to the absolute limit and this inevitably leads to systems failures that result in patients suffering.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peoples\u2019 lives are being endangered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sick patients lying on trolleys in A&E lack any\u00a0privacy and\u00a0are being stripped of their dignity\u00a0with a lack of basic sanitary<\/span> facilities.<\/p>\n

“\u201cThere is also no out of hours GP connected with Tallaght Hospital to treat anyone calling to the hospital with minor ailments.<\/span><\/p>\n

To compound matters further, there is a shortage of Radiologists,Physios,Dematoligists and Clerical staff due to the Public Service\u00a0jobs embargo<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe death of Mr Walsh\u00a0and the Coroners comments that described\u00a0Tallaght Hospital as a dangerous place\u00a0is a damning inditement on Hospital Management, this State and its Healthcare delivery system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Mr Walsh\u00a0from Elmcastle in Kilnamanagh,Tallaght\u00a0went into the hospital with a\u00a0minor ailment and died in the Accident and Emergency ward.<\/p>\n

“This tragic case\u00a0has highlighted\u00a0an appalling failure in the Tallaght Hospital system.and if we do not urgently<\/span> address the current staff shortages and the failures\u00a0in the system, it will invitably lead to more tragedies.<\/p>\n

“The proposed changes to be\u00a0introduced in the Hospital Accident & Emergency that will see a limit of 25 patients on trolleys and other\u00a0trolleys being shifted to overcrowded wards will not solve any of\u00a0the dangers faced by patients like Mr Walsh.<\/p>\n

“Shifting trolleys to overcrowded nursing wards that lack many resources and the attention to care wont work.<\/p>\n

”\u00a0The reality is that Tallaght Hospital needs new \u00a0resources and new staff, if it is to fullfill its Health\u00a0care\u00a0obligations.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crowe\u00a0 more resouces\u00a0needed after Coroner\u00a0Highlights Hospital\u00a0Failure Dublin South West TD Se\u00e1n Crowe has supported comments made today by Dublin county coroner Dr Kieran Geraghty who described Tallaght Hospital as being a \u201cvery dangerous place to be for anybody, let alone a sick patient\u201d Crowe, who lives in Tallaght has long campaigned for additional resources for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}