22 thoughts on “Gladys Is 93

  1. Giggidygoo

    Time to end this state of affairs. Harris should hang his head in shame instead of rubbing various hounds for photo shoots. FG need to be ejected from government.

    1. Cian

      It is literally amazing how the health service deteriorated over the last 28 months and we now, for the first time in the history of the State, have people waiting in A&E… something that was unheard-of prior to the current incumbent.
      Off with his head!

  2. Happy Molloy

    The Health Portfolio needs to be removed from party politics entirely.
    Strategies need to be implemented that would outlast any government, and decisions need to be made that would bring down any government.

    1. Cian

      “The Health Portfolio needs to be removed from party politics entirely.”

      It was. The HSE was created.

      Perhaps (one of) the problem is that our health system is so far removed from the Minister that s/he isn’t held responsible for it?
      Another (related) problem is that half the hospitals aren’t inside the HSE – they are owned by 3rd parties (mostly religious ones) and provide a ‘service’ for a ‘price’. Again, the HSE can’t control them as they are independent. The Minister can ask the HSE for changed, and the HSE can ask the hospitals to implement the change – but there is no direct control.

      The Mater (Public) Hospital – mentioned above – is owned and run by the Sisters of Mercy.

  3. Liam Deliverance

    FFS Varadkar and Harris will you do something about this. I don’t want to hear your excuses, we have been listening to them for a decade or more. If there has to be people waiting/sleeping on chairs or trolleys because of your corruption then OK but don’t have 70, 80, 90 year olds like this in a chair for 20 hours. Its a disgrace and ye are a disgrace to your office.

    1. Cian

      Should people be admitted based on age? or clinical need?

      The disgrace is that there is *anyone* waiting 20 hours. Their age is[1] immaterial.

      [1] in my opinion

      1. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

        What an odd footnote, you absolute MELT.[1]

        [1] I don’t think you’re a melt––I saw the term on twitter and like it.

        1. Papi

          The actual term, I believe, as my mother has called me it more than once in my earlier years, is a “hoors melt”
          Which is silly, cos she’s only calling herself a hoor.
          Silly mom.

  4. Liam Deliverance

    Of course there should be no-one waiting on a chair overnight, but especially not OAPs, that is cruel and unusual punishment. That poor lady would be in physical agony after 20 hours on that chair, she was probably cold the entire time and that’s not even giving consideration for whatever affliction brought her to A and E in the first place. Her dignity and pride is taking a terrible hit also and is probably what hurts her the most especially with her daughter there. My point is if you cant manage to have all patients in A and E dealt with and offered a bed or discharged then at least show some fecking humanity and respect for people of that age and get them a goddamn bed. Their age is not immaterial.

  5. Liam Deliverance

    So you are saying hospitals should work their admissions policy based on clinical need and not age and not any other factors?

    1. Cian

      Obviously the first consideration should be wealth – private patients treated first – and all that.

      But after that – clinical need. (a small part of “clinical need” would take the patient’s age and health into consideration).

      So yes, the 30-year-old woman with chest pains should get priority over the granny who is feeling poorly.

    2. Syl Farrell

      A Thought for Gladys. (From the Joe Duffy Show, 7th. Sept. 2018.)

      Let me tell you:
      ’t ain’t easy to keep warm, at ninety-three.
      Not to mind, ‘Mother of God’,
      in a draughty hallway in A&E.
      And you tell me, my friend,
      that this land was bought and paid for – in blood –
      and the Proclamation was for our good.
      Well, whose good?

      Let me say to you:
      take a hard look at the state of this place.
      Tell me you don’t see
      that the health system is a pure disgrace.
      Then look further:
      the housing crisis and the homelessness;
      political spin and false promises.
      And I could go on.

      How much more can you take?
      But, do tell me,
      over and over and over again,
      my dearest friend,
      you really don’t believe we’re on the eve
      of destruction.

      S. F.

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