Loughlinstown hospital

wicklaman83

I was up in the hospital on Tuesday and the staff were telling me the A&E is defo closing in September.
It'll be a sad day for wicklow people more so south wicklow when that happens.
All the cubicles were full the night before and beds jotted around the nurses station area and there was numerous people out in the waiting area to be seen.
Come September these people will all be sent to Vincents hospital on top of vincents current work load.
God help the peole then. Thats all i can say

uch

It's a joke, st. Vincents can't cope as it is.

brayblue24

....but frontline services won't be affected by cutbacks they promised....:(

driveshaft

It crazy what is going on with Loughlinstown. I live in Sandyford and went to A&E there a few months ago for an XRay, rather than going towards town and into a melee in one of the A&E's in town. I got great care from the staff but was shocked at how little investment there has been in facilities there. Later I met a girl who had been in an RTA in arklow who was brought to Loughlinstown. I couldn't believe that there was no General hospital closer to Arklow.

It's crazy to think one of the most populated areas of the country is so badly covered for basic A&E facilities.

Cookie_Monster

Loughlinstown is supposed to cover everything down to about Gorey, closing it would be insanity!

uch

fúcking typical, I post on the 6th that St. Vincents can't cope then my missus ends up there on a trolley on the 9th, what really gets my Goat up is she was waiting to be discharged (no more treatment needed) for approx 9 hours, during this time she was still taking up a bed that some other poor f**ker probably needed but they just couldn't be arsed writing a four (yes 4) line letter for her GP.

lighterman

Well has anyone been to either hospital. Is there much of a difference in either