Pre-election meeting hears calls for more A&Es in West Clare ‘death zone’
Report author Sinéad Madden speaking at the public meeting about the hospital requirements for Co Clare with general election candidates at the West County Hotel, Ennis.
People in west Clare feel like they live “in a death zone”, a heated meeting in Ennis on the impact of overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) has heard.
Academic and researcher Sinéad Madden, who hosted the event, presented her research on bed capacity in the area. She said that by increasing bed numbers in Ennis and Nenagh hospitals the HSE “could reduce UHL’s ED [emergency department] burden by over 38,000 annual attendees”.
