ORTHOPAEDIC PATIENTS AT MERLIN PARK PUT ON LONGER WAITING LISTS
Date Published: 10-Sep-2010
Thousands of patients requiring outpatient orthopaedic surgery at Merlin Park hospital may be forced onto longer waiting lists, as the hospital slows down the service.
In a statement to Galway Bay FM news, the HSE says "the service has to slow down as it has performed above the agreed activity to date".
By the end of July, almost 1,700 patients had orthopaedic surgical procedures at Merlin Park hospital.
According to the HSE, that figure should have been 1,527.
Orthopaedic surgeon at Merlin Park, Stephen Kearns claims thousands of orthopaedic outpatients may now realistically 'never be treated'