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Some of those
who attended.
The Defib
The health services in our Island leaves a lot t be desired.
Hospitals cannot cope with the numbers requiring in hospital
treatment, it is almost impossible to get seen by a GP, most
areas are very lucky if they can get an Ambulance within 30
minutes, it can take months to get an appointment to see a
consultant, it can then take more months to get treatment, and
the people of Monaghan, especially North Monaghan have to
travel miles to get to a hospital but little is being done to
improve the situation. For a time people, who could afford it,
were changing to Insurance to get an earlier appointment but
now only the rich can afford to pay the cost. Experts keep telling
us that people are dying needlessly when they dont arrive at
hospital in time or when they have to wait and wait to be seen
by a doctor. Do any of those on whom we rely to provide us with
a proper health service doing anything to help us? My answer is
NO. Are they doing anything positive to get nurses and doctors
stay in Ireland and work in our hospitals. My answer is again
NO. What on earth are those responsible for the delivery of a
Childrens Hospital doing when a building which started costing
€470m is now heading for 3billion? What can we do to change
things for the better? Would using your vote at the coming
elections change anything????
Meanwhile efforts are being made to train ordinary people to be
able to provide assistance to a patient until the ambulance
might arrive. How to administer cardiac assistance using the
Defib is one of the methods for the ordinary person to help a
heart attack patient but training is required. In this area of
North Monaghan, and I can only speak of this area, there is
plenty of work being done to increase the number of people
capable of administering cardiac assistance using the Defib and
there are plenty of opportunities for people to train in the use of
the Defib. You never know when you could be called upon for
help and you never know when you or a family member might
need Defib assistance from someone else.
In order to increase the number of Defibs in the area and to
encourage people to attend for training a walk/run event was
organised recently at Emy Lake to raise funds and this was well
attended but more could have been and should have been there.