‘The die is cast. He is coming to organise the implementation of the beginning of the end of what you know as Roscommon County Hospital’ – Dr. James O’Reilly speaking of the planned visit to Roscommon by Professor Drumm. ‘At the moment the hospital is going through death by a thousand cuts’ – Dr. Charles Byrne, Psychiatrist, Roscommon County Hospital. ‘Ultimately we have to use a soccer analogy. It’s a premiership hospital being relegated to a third division hospital’ – Dr. Charles Byrne, Psychiatrist, Roscommon County Hospital. ‘Roscommon people will be dying trying to get to the acute services in time, travelling an hour or hour and a half’ – Dr. Charles Byrne, Psychiatrist, Roscommon County Hospital. ‘The people for too long have sat back and sat silent. It’s coming near doomsday now’ – Cllr. Tony Ward. ‘Is anybody really thinking about the people served by Roscommon Hospital? I have always felt that Roscommon is relatively remote in terms of access to healthcare. This is very important for people of this region in that they will not be able to access acute hospitals within the golden hour’ – Dr. Barton, Portiuncula Hospital. ‘The HSE are counting the bodies. We will lose a few in Roscommon but we will save a few in Galway’ – Dr. Barton, Portiuncula Hospital.
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