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Thank you to all those who are registering. Thank you for your stories. Thank you for your support. We cannot accept the current levels of care for our children in the Mid West. They are not enough. |
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No High Dependency Care for our babies and children in the Mid West? What's going on?
 Do you know?
If you live in Clare, Limerick or North Tipperary and you have a small baby or a young child who becomes critically ill, the hospital you will go to, the Limerick Regional, does not have a Paediatric High Dependency Care Unit in operation. In other words, your child is at risk of not receiving the correct care in the most awful event of them becoming seriously ill and needing it most.
Do you know what is worse?
This Unit has been delayed for years.
In 2004 my son nearly died because of the specific lack of this High Dependency Care Unit at the hospital. I now know that while he was fighting for his life, the exact equipment needed to care for him in a high dependency situation was sitting in boxes on the corridor. Unopened. Unused. Idle.
Millions of Euros of equipment for the High Dependency Unit is currently lying idle at the hospital as we face into Winter 2008/2009
Why are more babies going to be left extremely vulnerable this winter? Will some of them die because of this delay in opening the Unit?
There is a room designated for a High Dependency Unit in the Paediatric section of the hospital. There are beds in the room. The room is empty. The critically ill babies and children needing the room are out in the general ward or up in the Adult Intensive Care. Compromised.
The ratio of staff to patient in the Paediatric Section of the Limerick Regional is greater than in other Regional Hospitals. That is, there are more nurses per child in Limerick than there are in other hospitals where they actually DO have High Dependency Care Units in operation.
So, what is going on? What is stopping this Unit from opening up? What is the problem? Its unacceptable that we can't take special care of our little ones when they most desperately need it.
As people of the Mid West, this is something we have to change. All of you out there who have small babies and young children, its our duty to demand that this facility be opened for them.
Please support our campaign to have this Unit operational as quickly as possible. Register your name at our website and have your voice counted as a member of the public who finds this delay in opening such a critical unit for babies and children of the Mid West absolutely unacceptable.
Please click here and register your support |
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This is the story of Sam Montwill, born nine weeks premature on the 28th of June 2004
Click here to read our story |
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