The Health Minister, Jennifer Carroll MacNeil, will meet with a delegation of Donegal doctors next week over the decision to locate a Surgical Hub for the north west in Sligo.
The minister met with Donegal TDs last night to discuss the issue after it was confirmed Sligo University Hospital was being nominated as the preferred location for the facility.
Confirming next week’s meeting, Deputy Pat ‘the Cope’ Gallagher said the minister was open to hearing ‘all sides of the story’.
Last week, over 170 senior doctors from Letterkenny University Hospital (LUH) and local GPs demanded an urgent meeting with the minister over the exclusion of LUH from the Surgical Hub plan. The doctors want to meet with Minister Carroll MacNeill to address what they describe as a critical threat to patient care and health equality in the north west. The clinicians called the selection of SUH as ‘flawed, unjustified, and deeply damaging’ in a letter circulated to local media.
“The decision to overlook LUH ignores both population need and geographic logic,” said Dr. Padraig McGuinness, a GP in Donegal.
Read our report on last week’s letter HERE.
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