EU Statistics show that Ireland has 278 hospital beds for every 100,000 people. Poland, a much poorer country, has 473 beds for every 100,000 people. Bulgaria has 624 such beds, for every 100,000 people.
“Would provide enormous relief.”
fathers are being prevented from attending for most of the birth
Health Minister, Stephen Donnelly has indicated that pro-life protests outside abortion centres will not be outlawed under new legislation, a move that has been welcomed by pro-life activists. Abortion campaigners had sought to ban peaceful and often prayerful outreaches outside GP offices or hospitals, despite Gardai saying that no issues had arisen. Pro-life groups said […]
Aontú leader Peadar Tóibín has said that there are serious questions for the government to answer after revelations that over half of those who died of Covid-19 in the State contracted the virus either in nursing homes or in hospitals. Deputy Tóibín said information released to Aontú under Freedom of Information showed that 56% of […]
The Rural Independent TDs has sharply criticised the government for what it called its catastrophic failure to provide adequate cancer services across the public health system. “While the Health Minister obsesses on Twitter self-promotion – cancer patients survival rates go backwards, due to targeted government health services cuts,” the leader of the group Deputy Mattie […]
Deaths from heart attacks deaths triple, and cancer deaths are predicted to rise over the next ten years. Yet the lockdowns continue, and the data is ignored. It seems that the main function of the Irish government is to inflate the fear. The latest from our patronising Tánaiste is that we might have to get […]
There’s been a lot of attention given, in the lockdown-sceptical parts of the Irish internet, in recent days, to the results of a freedom of information request made by a website called freepress.ie. Here’s what they say: Freepress.ie can exclusively reveal that Irish hospitals were never under strain throughout 2020, based on newly released official […]
In the week before Easter, Life Institute (for which I am a spokeswoman) launched a campaign seeking to ensure older people would not be denied life-saving care in this crisis, because decisions regarding the allocation of critical care should never be based solely on age. Events since then have given fresh urgency to the initiative. Disturbing […]