Galway Bay fm newsroom – Almost seven thousand elective surgeries have been cancelled at University Hospital Galway over the past two years.
That’s according to Sinn Fein Galway West candidate Trevor O’ Clochartaigh, who says the figure was revealed in a parliamentary reply given to his colleague, Deputy Pearse Doherty.
He says the figure for cancelled surgeries at UHG is the highest in the Saolta Healthcare Group and is twenty times higher than the figure for Letterkenny Hospital which stands at 351.
The figures provided by the Health Minister show that 6, 835 elective, or non-emergency, surgeries were cancelled at the hospital during 2014 and 2015.
It follows the recent cancellation of elective surgeries at Hospitals nationwide to focus on tackling overcrowding at A&E departments – in what Leo Varadkar says is ‘proof that measures are working’.
Trevor O’ Clochartaigh says that the figures show that the Health Minister has failed to tackle the crises facing the health sector.
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