The people of Dundalk are gearing up for a huge public meeting in the Town Hall tomorrow night, the 8th October. Why?
It is simple. The government intends on closing our hospital. Louth County Hospital was opened 50 years ago. It was needed then and is needed now. For years now, government policy has been pushing to close the hospital. They want to centralise everything into one hospital in Drogheda.
The government's plans have nothing to do with cutbacks, recessions or the public good. They were written by an accountancy consultancy firm from England called Teamworks who have been specialising in the privatisation agenda for years.
So back to our hospital.
We lost our children's ward.
We lost our maternity ward (the only children born in Dundalk now are those born in the back of a car or an ambulance on the side of the road because the mother doesn't make it to Drogheda on time).
When I say "lost", I mean these services were removed by a careless, uncaring series of governments.
And now we are in endgame. The HSE plans on closing the A&E that saves lives and removing acute medical services that intervene when a patient is having a stroke, heart attack or even an anaphylactic shock. This should worry all of us.
So ladies and gentlemen, in the week that Dermot Ahern from Dundalk is negotiating a new programme for government on behalf of FF with a Green Party which promised us all that our hospital would be safe, we the people are taking to the civic Town Hall.
John Gormley is invited. Dermot Ahern is invited. Promises are to be left at the door and action is required.
Will they come? That is up to them. But the people of this town will be there.
It is simple. The government intends on closing our hospital. Louth County Hospital was opened 50 years ago. It was needed then and is needed now. For years now, government policy has been pushing to close the hospital. They want to centralise everything into one hospital in Drogheda.
The government's plans have nothing to do with cutbacks, recessions or the public good. They were written by an accountancy consultancy firm from England called Teamworks who have been specialising in the privatisation agenda for years.
So back to our hospital.
We lost our children's ward.
We lost our maternity ward (the only children born in Dundalk now are those born in the back of a car or an ambulance on the side of the road because the mother doesn't make it to Drogheda on time).
When I say "lost", I mean these services were removed by a careless, uncaring series of governments.
And now we are in endgame. The HSE plans on closing the A&E that saves lives and removing acute medical services that intervene when a patient is having a stroke, heart attack or even an anaphylactic shock. This should worry all of us.
So ladies and gentlemen, in the week that Dermot Ahern from Dundalk is negotiating a new programme for government on behalf of FF with a Green Party which promised us all that our hospital would be safe, we the people are taking to the civic Town Hall.
John Gormley is invited. Dermot Ahern is invited. Promises are to be left at the door and action is required.
Will they come? That is up to them. But the people of this town will be there.
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