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14 April 2023
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A state-of-the-art ward currently ‘lying empty’ in Roscommon Hospital should be urgently fitted out with beds as part of a new Government initiative. That’s the view of Independent TD Denis Naughten who ramped up pressure on the Department of Health and the HSE this week, highlighting the unused status of the ward in question over the past five years. With the Government having announced plans for 1,500 new hospital beds nationwide, Deputy Naughten placed a focus on the situation in Roscommon. Calling on the Minister for Health to ensure that the empty surgery ward at Roscommon Hospital is included in the initiative, Deputy Naughten said: “The HSE has issued a tender for 1,500 new hospital beds at 15 sites across the country.
It is imperative that the empty stateof-the-art ward that has been lying idle in Roscommon Hospital since 2018 is now fitted out and staffed as part of these national plans”. Noting that the HSE intends to provide the beds within 75 weeks by using modular building, the TD said the shell of the ward adjoining the theatres in Roscommon has been completed since 2018 and could immediately provide an increased number of surgical procedures for patients currently on waiting lists. Deputy Naughten said that the unused ward in question is currently merely storing hospital beds and medical equipment. Appealing to Minister Stephen Donnelly to act on his call, Deputy Naughten said: “We have a section of the hospital empty for the last five years which could provide 12 additional beds at the stroke of a pen”.
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