Dail Protest

Dr Galen

LIE DOWN AND BE COUNTED


Patients Together are staging a demonstration on Good Friday at the Dail at 12 pm. They will have 495 people to represent the highest number of patients recorded on trolleys so far. The participants will be lying down on the ground in front of the Dail. All are welcome and bring your own banners

Patients together demonstration

Lie down together ..... 495 Patients on Trolleys in one day

Demonstration on Good Friday - 14th April 2006 - 12pm Dail Eireann

anyone else heard anything about this?? will it make any difference?

nurse_baz

nurse_baz wrote:

anyone else heard anything about this?? will it make any difference?

Are they going to just lie down, or lie down on some trolleys?

lostexpectation

im not sure how many people turned up, and unsure about the imagery of lieing down...

i've never heard of a big protest re hospitals in Dublin

scojones

Story here: http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/04/14/story254098.html

mickcarroll10

I agree that there is a problem in the A & Es but maybe Patients Together shouldnt be run by a FG member,who no doubt will run again at the next local elections

dbnavan

mickcarroll10 wrote:

I agree that there is a problem in the A & Es but maybe Patients Together shouldnt be run by a FG member,who no doubt will run again at the next local elections

Who is the FG member who runs it?

lostexpectation

they've been quite stringent about not having party political bunf! of any kind.

I don't believe it an opposition front unless you educate me otherwise

only about 100 turned up there was thousands out down the country last year...

Vorsprung

mickcarroll10 wrote:

I agree that there is a problem in the A & Es but maybe Patients Together shouldnt be run by a FG member,who no doubt will run again at the next local elections

The problem isn't in the A&Es themselves, it's the fact that there aren't enough acute hospital beds in the system. Most of the backlog is from people waiting to get admitted. That and people who really should have gone to their GP first.

logonapr

Looked quite pathetic on the news with only about 100 people protesting outside the Dáil.
Not very bright staging the protest when the Dáil isn't even in action.

phantom_lord

There seems to be various different protests outside the dail neary every week, probably explains why the recieve so little attention.