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The future of St Luke's Cancer Hospital Rathgar

  • 23-10-2007 7:41pm
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    Crash&Burn
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    Save St Luke’s Cancer Hospital
    The government plans to shut St Luke’s Cancer Hospital in Rathgar but St Luke’s can and should be saved:
    St Luke’s Hospital is the largest radiotherapy centre in Ireland. Its ethos and type of care is what the health system should aspire to.
    If St Luke’s is shut the land will inevitably be sold off for development. Ensuring St Luke’s stays in Rathgar will ensure the land stays for public health use.
    The New St Luke’s will be a Public Private Partnership (PPP) on the site of St James’. PPP Hospitals in the UK have been a disaster with staff cuts, fewer beds, and poor management as private companies reap huge profits out of the hospitals.
    How will St Luke’s wonderful therapeutic surroundings and its long term patient accommodation in Oakland Lodge be replaced with something better on St James’, an already overcrowded hospital?
    What will happen to the Dubdoc clinic, which is an extremely important out of hour’s service to the people living in the vicinity of Rathgar?
    What will happen to the 22 million raised by The Friends of St Lukes?

    Nationally cancer patients are facing unacceptable delays in access to treatment. An expanded and upgraded St Luke’s with extra surgical support services and greater capacity would reduce those delays and ensure St Luke’s long term viability. The government has the money to provide such services.

    Dublin City has already lost too many hospitals. Public health care is under pressure and facing cut backs. Staff, patients and the public need to stand up before it gets any worse.

    In Dun Laoghaire a campaign has successfully saved St Michael’s Hospital. Patients and staff are protesting in Ennis, Monaghan, Dublin and around the country against cuts. A similar campaign can save St Luke’s.

    Come to the public meeting on October 25th in Ranelagh Multi-D School and question the politicians and find out about the campaign to ensure world class cancer care continues to be provided at St Luke’s in Rathgar.


    Is it not our right to fight, not to see another wonderful hospital closed ?


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