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Ennis hospital faces new cuts STUART HOLLY
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HE future of the Medical Assessment Unit in Ennis Hospital is in question with revelations that it could be in line to lose its seven-day service. Dr Michael Harty TD has told the Dáil he understands that the Medical Assessment Unit at Ennis Hospital is to close at weekends and the seven-day service will be reduced to five days. Speaking at Leaders Questions Dr Harty told the Taoiseach this has much more to do with medical politics than the delivery of care to patients: “Effectively, it is a failure of the group to deploy resources properly. “Considering that the Mid Western
Hospital Group is unable to open its own medical assessment unit on weekdays, not to mind weekends, it defies logic that it would now propose to close the only seven-day medical assessment unit within the region, namely, that in Ennis. “This will curtail services within the hospital in Ennis but it will also transfer considerable pressure to the accident and emergency services in Limerick,” he added.
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