125km to the nearest hospital- wait, WHAT!?

[Cowabungaa]

I'd imagine that's what'll happen actually. It seems the most logical course of action.

Politics and logic?! *snicker snort* Good one mate, good one...

Seriously though, let's hope so for the sake of everyone in that area.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Now I'm not saying scrapping a hospital is great, it's not, obviously. The problem is that it has to be something and the hospital is probably the thing they'll have the least protest about.

The real sting and underlying issue of losing this hospital is that it is just another extention of East-focused spending by the Irish government (and the Northern Irish gov. as well). I live in North West Northern Ireland, and the whole west of Ireland (North and South) has been ignored by the government ever since we had one. Now I understand that every country will find they have richer areas, and poorer areas, and usually it's a split of the urban and rural areas, whether you're in England or Brazil you will still find the same rich/poor divide, But in Ireland the government just doesn't care. If a service is not profitable or doesn't have the infastructure to support itself in the East; in Dublin or Belfast, then it is invested in and improved, upgraded and advertised. If a service becomes unprofitable in the west, it is just removed with no attempt to revive it. We've seen this with the rail service, which is now pretty much exclusive to the West, the bus services, which operate every 10 minutes in Belfast, and every 4 hours in Tyrone.

You can see this plainly in the loss of this hospital which leaves a vast area without emergency services, supposedly because there was no money to keep the A&E running, but yet there are somehow funds to pay for a whole new hospital in the East specifically for children. In Northern Ireland we have had exactly the same problems. The Omagh A&E wing was closed down, meaning Tyrone doesn't have a hospital, although in our case it isn't so bad as there remains a hospital in Derry and Enniskillen (although I believe they did want to close Enniskillen as well, meaning county Fermanagh would be TWO COUNTIES away from a A&E department, but folded due to protests.) And the cancer centre in Derry was supposed to close, meaning the nearest services for people in the West of N.I. would be flipping Belfast, but again politicians had to fold under pressure or they would have been hunted down and skinned alive.

There is anger about this issue because it is just another small cut to services in the West, while services in the East are improved upon. That is what is so infuriating.

 

[sean360h]

quick question would it not be better if you went to mayo general as apposed to galway or Dublin
mayo general is defiantly not 125 miles away from your position although it is nice to see some one from the same part of the world

 

[sean360h]

Shouldn't they use helicopters then? Half of my family lives in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere and they don't have ambulances there, they have helicopters since the hospital is so far away.

I've said it before I'll say it again, to my knowledge we don't have helicopters.

We do but you have to pay for them to help you (I think) I do first aid and when someone falls and breaks their leg on a mountain
we either ave to carry their ass down or call in for a chopper usually ts the first option

 

[Knight Captain Kerr]

Ireland really isn't doing well is it? DeVelara holding us back for years didn't help.

 

[Yopaz]

You think that is bad? Here they are trying to close down a hospital that is 2 hours away already meaning that the closest will be about 5 hours away. This is one of the few countries in the world that aren't in debt so that is messed up in every way. Hospitals in places where they are overfilled are also closed down for no other reason than to save money.