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SF’s hospital hypocrisy
Tuesday, 25 November 2008
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The hypocrisy of Sinn Fein, and in particular Gerry Adams, is unbelievable.
In a Sinn Fein motion to the Assembly, he declares that ‘a new regional Women and Children’s Hospital is an urgent priority’.
Well, it is now because The Jubilee Maternity Hospital at the Belfast City Hospital site was closed by the then Health Minister, Sinn Fein’s Bairbre de Brun, in 2000.
To close The Jubilee was a political decision, and a disastrous one at that, as The Jubilee’s number of births will prove, and was done against all the advice of doctors and midwives.
The Jubilee had a neo-natal unit, which is vital for any 21st century maternity hospital.
The Mater Maternity Hospital does not have a neo-natal unit and, before The Jubilee closure, many sick babies born at The Mater were transferred to The Jubilee, so it stands to reason that if there was to be a maternity hospital closure then it should have been The Mater.
The Royal now has to cope with all sick and tiny babies in its neo-natal unit.
The only sensible thing to do now is to reopen the Jubilee at the City.
Georgia
Newtownabbey
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Agreed.
Closing a hospital over it's name is ridiculous.
Posted by Aaron | 26.11.08, 12:10 GMT
This is now SF's only way of bringing down Northern Ireland. Trying to destroy it from within. Take Ruane's efforts where the NI education system is concerned. de Brun and Belfast City Hospital. There will be other examples.
All their endeavours will do is increasingly isolate traditional SF voters who (like most of us) are now more concerned with real life issues, rather than pipe dreams such as a united Ireland.
If the SDLP had any sprouts, they would be seizing the initiative here trying to garner support from disenfranchised republican or nationalist voters.
Posted by mickey | 26.11.08, 11:37 GMT
But since they knocked down the building and built the new cancer centre on its site where would it go?
Posted by Anne | 26.11.08, 09:54 GMT