This afternoon.
The GoFundMe campaign launched on December 6th by staff at the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin to raise money to buy a new heart ultrasound machine for extremely premature babies nears €80,000.
It hoped to raise €76,500.
In fairness.
Earlier:
The Rotunda Hospital NICU Heart Ultrasound Machine (GoFundMe)
Rotunda staff resort to online fundraising for equipment (The Irish Times)
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no thanks to blushirts..
3 years of Zappones long way round mileage expenses.
+3
While I do love our health system, and have been well served by it over the years, that one of our primary hospitals has to make a GoFundMe for essential equipment is just criminal! And 76k is a pittance for a country like ours. Hell, it is barely more than the expenses claimed by our TDs.
+1, disgrace
See above, don’t be a moaner
But have you seen how much mad big printers cost these days though? Can’t print babies hearts, now can you?
In time I’m sure it will be possible
+1
Also the cost of paying GPs for 192 abortions.
Always the bitter word
It’s a recognition of the reality
1 fair fupping play to them for showing initiative, without this babies could die
2 couldn’t care if the money came from the Jimmy Saville foundation if it’s used for this cause
3 it’s Christmas celebrate that some people will still do their job despite the apparent lack of any sort of leadership
Yes, it is a recognition of the reality, and I do applaud them for their initiative. My point was not against the hospital, but against the system that requires them to have to use such measures.
Agreed but that being what it is and you can’t change it on your own – what can you do – you can do things like this
“….it’s Christmas celebrate that some people will still do their job despite the apparent lack of any sort of leadership….”
You have summarized the health service in a nutshell. well done
And we just gave money to RTE and the insurance companies……nice work FG!
And there was Zappone sending back 60mill she couldn’t spend from her own allocation
I swear to John Fenton lads
This Country doesn’t stand a chance if it’s the likes of her that get to be Government Ministers
At €62,846 now. Good chance they’ll reach the target by lunchtime.
Yeah it’s going well! Just donated there
+1
Donated this morning. I’m absolutely horrified by this to be honest. The little one spent so much time in the NICU in Rotunda, and the staff went above and beyond for every premature baby. It’s so shameful.
Look at all the lovely virtue you’re signalling…
Aren’t you wonderful.
I could have been someone
Well so could anyone
Yes how dare I feel gratitude to the staff at the Rotunda for saving my daughter’s life on more than one occasion.
And some tragedy to spice it all up…
Truly ’tis the season.
Ah, we’re back to trite and unimaginative. Maybe 2020 will be your year, sweetie, though I sincerely doubt it.
Merry Christmas.
and the bells were ringing out …
Wait a minute
You do not get to fupp about with our children and your obtuse and arcane bullsugar
GFY
Ah here, wait a minute. No need. At all.
no ridiculous, don’t mind the nasty troll Milly, glad your wee one is well
+1
Some folks can’t help themselves
This is bonkers. The HSE get over €16 BILLION and yet they need to go-fund medical equipment!
Beyond Bonkers Cian
Maternity care and early babies and other perinatal care in the Republic of Ireland is a mandatory State provision, regardless of the treatment needed. Or who requires it.
And here is a demonstration that it has failed to provide, and once again it’s the people, us, stepping up.
I’m not savvy enough but there are plenty who are, who can actually pinpoint the failure to provide this care within the governing statues.
IMO anyway
There is definitely a negligence by the State
As to what exactly I’m not qualified to say for sure
The point I made yesterday is that the assumption “the state will provide” simply isn’t backed up by evidence
Hence civic minded citizens have to just DIY
You have to go to the top of the Health Ministry to try find an answer to that. Good luck with that.
Bravo. Now go ask mammy to wipe the dribble from your chin, you absolute embarrassment.
Not as much as I love trolling you
Not as much as Samson loves kittens though!
and seriously – why am I still being naughtied?
I’m being so good now. It’s Cmas! Have a heart!
You show off your idiocy with such fruitful abandon. Keep going, it’s really funny.
I’d say that industrial printer they bought themselves was so worth sacrificing of all this new medical equipment for newborn babies.
Why can’t we have both?
That printer is VERY important, there will be REALLY REALLY important stuff printed on it
Why isn’t the Government giving this to the Rotunda? Yet they can afford a fuppin massive printer.
And for consultants… check out this whingebag over his quarter of a million…. buy quite a few machines for that…
https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/letters/consultants-contracts-1.4120835
Sir, – I took up a public patient only contract in 2008 with a salary of €252,000. Eleven years later, I and all my colleagues who did so are still waiting to be paid at the agreed rate of pay. – Yours, etc,
Dr PEADAR GILLIGAN,
Consultant in Emergency
Medicine,
Sandymount, Dublin 4.
REPEAL THE 8TH
UNREPEAL THE 8TH
STOP MURDERING CHILDREN!!
Well… when all you dummies arrive at the next election ready to vote for the other half of this f-ing malaise… remember this… both halves of the F-f/g establishment for killing the poor(otherwise known as the unfortunate) rely.. I repeat, RELY on your stupidity and of course, like god, your donations…
Jayzus f-ing christ(if he existed) is still rolling in his grave,,
60’%-ish of voters are pathetic f-ing eejits… delibrately voting to avoid reality, outsourcing responsibility to intentionally allow themselves to be controllled by a tiny minority of genuinely guilded morons..
P.S. Giving money to the houseless directly on the street is better than complying with a dysfunctional system but I get it… 80,000 desperate sighs of hope in case it happens to you… deluded idiots investing in regression.
I do the same so I clearly f-ing know what I’m talking about,
Keep voting F-f/g regressive ideology for the already rich and powerful.
:-J