08-06-2015
Independent TD Mattie McGrath has called on the HSE and the Minister for Health Leo Varadkar to immediately clarify the reasons why promised accommodation for Radiology Services at South Tipperary General Hospital has been consistently delayed. It has emerged that despite funding being approved to house a newly purchased CT Scanner in 2014, there is still no sign of construction work being undertaken:
“The provision of improved radiology services is certainly reaching a critical point and it must be addressed.
It is simply scandalous to realise that the current CT Scanner in South Tipp General has been in ‘temporary’ accommodation since 2002 and has already reached its end of life following numerous breakdowns.
I am informed that the current scanner now represents a major risk to the health and wellbeing of patients attending STGH such is the level of its disrepair.
The staff are now reduced to having to scramble for spare parts to keep the current CT scanner in operation.
This is simply outrageous.
It represents not only an unconscionable delay which is completely unjustifiable, but also an ad hoc approach to the lives of patients that is utterly unacceptable.
The proposed new accommodation for the updated CT Scanner which was supposed to be completed by November of this year now looks more and more like another goal that is being abandoned by the HSE for reasons which are inexplicable.
The patients of STGH deserve better than a radiology service than one which is essentially operating under the threat of constant mechanical failure,” concluded Deputy McGrath.
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