The new chair of the South East Committee of the HSE Regional Health Forum South has pledged to support healthcare workers in their efforts to get the recruitment embargo lifted.
It comes after a lunchtime protest outside St Luke’s General Hospital for Carlow and KIlkenny yesterday by over 100 employees, who are members of SIPTU, Fórsa or the INMO, who are opposed to what they say is the HSE’s suppression of thousands of frontline posts.
The KCLR Daily linked up to some of those who had turned out – hear that here;
Cllr John Coonan worked as a nurse for four decades and told KCLR news that he and his committee colleagues will see that adequate levels are upheld; “I’ll seize every opportunity as a former nurse that worked in the healthcare business to see to it that the appropriate levels of healthcare are maintained and that embargos on recruitment or any other embargo won’t stifle a provision of quality healthcare service, whether it be in the community or hospital setting, and I’ll put my shoulder to the wheel and support them fully on that”.
