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‹ Questions on Proposed Legislation Cork hospital hip operation delay
Summary
A constituent’s 86-year-old mother had waited for hip surgery while fasting; the Tánaiste undertook to have the Health Minister contact the Deputy.
In respect of the programme for Government and the charter for patient care, I was contacted overnight about a constituent's elderly mother who was admitted to Cork University Hospital on Sunday afternoon with a broken hip but has not yet had the operation. She has been fasting since then. There are numerous such examples. Whatever priorities the Government has, this should be one. This 86 year old woman has been treated appallingly. When will the Government implement that part of its programme?
