‘Third-world conditions’ at Limerick hospital: ‘My mother’s last hours were horrendous’
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- A Limerick woman has warned that her mother’s last few hours on this earth were “absolutely horrendous” due to the “third world conditions” at the University Hospital Limerick Emergency Department.
Over the last few days, Lunchtime Live has been highlighting the conditions at the Limerick hospital, which is regularly the most overcrowded in the country.
A protest was held at the hospital this afternoon as the Health Minister Stephen Donnelly and HSE Chief Bernard Gloster were visiting.
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has described UHL’s Emergency Department as a ‘war zone’ - and Lunchtime Live has been flooded with emails from patients about the conditions all this week.
Limerick woman Teri told the show that her mother was admitted to the Emergency Department six months ago today after suffering a heart attack.
She said she will “never, ever forget” what happened next for as long as she lives.
“When we got to the hospital, there was no room for them to actually bring Mum through,” she said.
“So the ambulance driver - it was a bit like the scene from an officer and a gentleman - he picked Mum up and carried her in his arms to a trolley.
“The place was absolutely jammers. It's just something I will never forget.
“If I could have taken her out of there, I would but that’s the problem, you've no choice; when somebody is that sick, you just have to take a chance and stay there.
“What I saw and what I heard and the smells will stay with me forever, I think.
“I drive past there [now] and I bless myself and I just say, ‘Please God, nobody that I know will ever have to face that in there again.
“It was absolutely horrendous.”
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Every hospital in this country is an utter disgrace. The way my mom was treated while she was dying is something my family and i will never get over. How can a terminally ill patient who is bed bound have their bell plugged out? My poor Mammy had to ring home to ask for a drink of water 😢😢😢
Fiona, I'm truly sorry to hear what your mammy went through. My heart goes out to you.😢
Oh my heart goes out to you 🤗 that's awful.
J
These people built our country and this is the level of respect they're shown in their twilight? Where is the dignity? To hear today the health services secretary general is now the highest paid civil servant in the country? I've had enough!!
Have you heard the bullying of elderly inside hospitals? Neill Prendeville did a special about it in September 2020. Liveline Joe Duffy show did a special about it back in 2011 off the back of Ann-Marie Kearns article in the Irish Times or Irish Independent. Neglect and bullying of the elderly inside hospitals has been highlighted since 2011, nothing has changed.
People need to be charged at this stage
This is so disturbing - my heart breaks for that Mom and her family. Shame on the health system !
My daugher is dead and for nothing other than a lack of care . Need i say more .
I am so sorry. ❤
May she rest in peace ✌️🕊️♥️🙏
Vote for Harris and this is what you'll have for the next.... 20 years! Or worst!....
What such a sad story. So sorry for those patients on trolleys. Such a bad health service the minister should be ashamed of himself. Get rid of health minister waster.
Not sure if it will make any difference for you have Simon Harris in the drivers seat who was very much behind the health scandal that triggered a general election 🤔 and what is making it much more worse is that the majority of media networks are protecting these politicians censoring comments on their social media platforms and in public as well the only way to deal with this is very much hit the streets around the country making massive massive noise that will put them in the spotlight on the world stage that they absolutely hate and fear of being seen as the most unpopular ever in Irish politics history on the world stage
I have no words, I lost my mother in 2020 and its hard enough to loose your Mam but to go through that too. My deepest sympathies to that lady 😢
This has been the state of Irish hospitals for years.
It has significantly worse under Donnelly
Went into lourdres hospital paddys day. Had a bleed in my gut from a tear . I collapse off chair n woke up on the floor n a insian male nurse shouting at me to stop throwing myself on floor he was horrible. I was left 20hrs n close to cardiac arest and not one cared. All management need to be arrested
I'm very sorry to hear what happened to you. Report that nurse please to HSE. Report him to An Bord Altranais too. We cannot have that savage looking after sick people.
@@Mary-wo5lnThe complaints only go to an office lay person with no power. Hence nothing changes. It's been like this for years.
One place you are guaranteed never to meet a politician is an A and E. They prefer the private hospitals.
That's unbelievable, unreal poor woman 😢
This is why people like me say nothing will change until we get rid of SF FG
TDs and councillors
Elect people who put IRISH people first never mind what the EU Or anyone else says
And the numbers will just keep on growing very fast before the next general election Ireland has to reach their WEF NGO'S Brussels bosses quotas especially on the people who are keep on arriving in Ireland with false documents and absolutely zero documents and be absolutely 💯 % sure that a massive massive intake arrivals of Palestinians refugees majority young military fighting age men and just a few hundred of women and children to use for their media propagandists mouth piece, yes and they will certainly continue to tell you the Irish public that they have a international protection obligation to take in these new arrivals and every single thing will be very much free and they can work with out any need for work permits and this will literally drive the young Irish people out of their very own country, support their so called Palestinians protest is exactly the very same thing that they did with the Ukrainians before they opened Ireland's boarders for the Ukrainians, remember this comment you will see it happening soon they will wait just until all of the election is over then the massive massive intake operations will really start to kick in and yes you will see massive of more Irish people becoming homeless due to this and more Irish families doing couches 🛋 sleepers in their parents home and other families homes to avoid becoming homeless on the streets and the majority media networks will keep censoring comments on this topic and brush it under the carpet as there is nothing to see here.
My experience was horrendous, the nurses talked over me about how many breaks they had , when is your next day off . ? How did you enjoy the wedding? Where are you going on holidays? And to beat it all a nurse blamed us for lying on trolleys , because we didn’t support them while they went on strike. On the upside the people coming from the third world will completely feel at home
Not all nurses are heros. Lacking empathy 😢
Exactly very few if any
Funny thing. That's lies. Maybe u should try to be a nurse. Then u will see how much work we do fir ur families. Every single day we put in 110% . U can only try the change the system when the people who sit in their offices try also. This is the difficult part as they don't see what goes on on the floor. I worry about my family going to hospital too. Not all cultures work well together also, if people don't pull their weight and expect others to do it all the whole system breaks down. This is what I've been seeing.
Over that last few days.
This issue has been ongoing for 10 years
Where is the political opposition in Ireland? From what I can see theyre all the same, just two sides of the same coin. They want to privatise the health servicr, be under no illusion thats where this is going!
It’s not just Ireland. I went to A&E in Edinburgh Scotland with a possible kidney infection and they actually advised me you won’t be seen for at least 10 hours. I gave up and stuck it out in my hotel and went to the doctor back in Ireland. I also called the emergency NHS number and nobody answered. Uk health system is in a shambles as well as Irish one.
Everyone in Munster has a court case against Limerick regional at this point.
They should take a class action then.
@@franobyrne2032 thing is though when you do people often milked dry in legal fees and they delay the process for as long as possible and people can’t afford it.
The Minister for health needs to spend an entire day with all the staff and experience what it is really like for staff and patients on a daily basis. I hope the Minister will not visit for a short time just to tick a box. Time for help and action now!
Horrifying story that sounds like a nightmare only we know it's real and it's because we don't have the public services or infrastructure to deal with the two million or more extra people we have in our small country.
Ireland isn't a rich country either because tonight in the endless Geoengineered rain and in the cold and rain all winter, there are thousands of homeless Irish people sleeping in tents, shelters, cars , doirways and other unsuitable places without hope of a home.
All our homes are in jeopardy too because the Government are insisting on bringing in unlimited numbers of even more migrants even though there's nowhere to put our own people or them.
Things have broken down so much and now Helen McCentee wants to bring in North Korean type Hate Crime Laws where you can be jailed for just speaking or writing "recklessly".
Then there's the World Health Organisation Pandemic Treaty due to take effect in May ending our Sovereignty and giving the WHO supreme powers.
Even our food supplies are under attack from the Globalists using Geoengineering to turn the fields invto bogs that farmers can't plant crops in.
They are on about water scarcity again and are saying that we must use it sparingly and that new houses will have to have water conservation taps and showers, I assume that means giving out a trickle while connected to electricity and a Smart Meter.
Meanwhile the latest is that hundreds of thousands of euro will be put into outdoor swimming facilities.
And the numbers will just keep on growing very fast before the next general election Ireland has to reach their WEF NGO'S Brussels bosses quotas especially on the people who are keep on arriving in Ireland with false documents and absolutely zero documents and be absolutely 💯 % sure that a massive massive intake arrivals of Palestinians refugees majority young military fighting age men and just a few hundred of women and children to use for their media propagandists mouth piece, yes and they will certainly continue to tell you the Irish public that they have a international protection obligation to take in these new arrivals and every single thing will be very much free and they can work with out any need for work permits and this will literally drive the young Irish people out of their very own country, support their so called Palestinians protest is exactly the very same thing that they did with the Ukrainians before they opened Ireland's boarders for the Ukrainians, remember this comment you will see it happening soon they will wait just until all of the election is over then the massive massive intake operations will really start to kick in and yes you will see massive of more Irish people becoming homeless due to this and more Irish families doing couches 🛋 sleepers in their parents home and other families homes to avoid becoming homeless on the streets and the majority media networks will keep censoring comments on this topic and brush it under the carpet as there is nothing to see here.
I've just been a patient in Tallaght hospital. I know the A&E is always over run. Once on the wards, they were amazing. Professional and empathetic. It's a disgrace that our government is neglecting the health service, and I'm sorry to say they are flooding the country with more people, who will also need access to these services. Nobody wins except the HSE's senior management on bloated wages, and the politicians who have no will to take the problem on, but are happy to accept the wages.
Mary Harney should be made to account for this.
The snowflakes wouldn't remember her
She then passed the mantle to Michael Martin who went on to dismantle the southern health board!
Listening to this, breaks my heart..
No need to worry… it will get alot better now that we have thousands of (unvetted) doctor’s & surgeons 😀arriving here every week with no passports/ documents!!😡
Simon Harris is to blame
What is happening to our wee country? 😢
We've successfully shown that we are incapable of self-government.
Mass migration, lowering of standards, a government that is nothing other than a mere administration
What was planned.
11 months treatment for a kidney stone 4 stents 5 operations and 4 difference hospitals dundalk Drogheda Navan and the mater I've cost the state 250000 ...kidney stone
So this not just an NHS problem. Where is the Irish economic boom money going to.?
Bring back our sisters ( nuns ) this never happened under their watch, sack all the managers and jail all the corrupt politicians who've enabled such decay 🇮🇪✝️🇮🇪
💯💯💯💯
Stop paying tax and demand these government these lazy selfish pepole DO THEIR JOB AND SOLVE THE PROBLEM NOW
Import................
Become................
Third world???
All by design
WEF & co
As long as there's rainbow zebra crossings everything is grand
I even think these rainbow crossings are illegal. Some are very bright and showy and intrusive. The white zebra crossing was there for a reason, did its job and wasn't intrusive. I do not want woke crossings, I want safety. They are only advertising propaganda for LGBT which is a fringe cult and they have no connection with the welfare of pedestrians or safety.
Instead of marsh by for palastinians, Irish people should be marching for their own health services ..
You can march for both
Ridiculous....and harmful.
Leo was the FG leader a medical doctor & made as much progress as a snail So harris will do better he'll probally go backwards
Their agenda seems to be the sick & needy are a burden on our finances so they're last to deal with
Those gangsters are actively culling the Irish elderly to make way for our replacements as per their WEF bosses' orders!
This is all so depressing. But this lady is telling it as it is. The ‘health ‘ system in this country is beyond a joke. This interview should be put on the news. EVERYONE needs to hear what’s going on.
If you were a criminal and in jail, you would get a lot better Treatment than a taxpaying citizen😡😠
The bold Mary Harney laughing all the way to the bank. Chair of this that and the other.
My heart goes out to Terry. Its diabolical , because we have demons in this government.
The population here in ireland is too large for the hospitals. It's been like that for the last 20 or 30 years
When we take our pets to the vet , the treatment they get is so much better than this.
All our nurses and doctors are in Australia.
Mayor of limerick is to get 150,000 and 5 staff ...Tax money wasted in all areas...Do we really need a Mayors when we don't have a healthcare system.
Get Simon Harris to visit , these places. Now he is going to be the front man 👨 in this government 😮
She praises the staff and then goes on to outline all their incompetence.
This is the direct consequence of closing local hospitals and not carrying out the work for the so called denters of excellence BEFORE they closed the local hospitals
It will get even much worse for our generation. There is simply no money left for us and no nurses. Perhaps we have to start thinking about some different way on how to organize the ends of our lives. Is it really reasonable to be kept alive while terminally I’ll just to suffer? Would a administered and save medical ending by my own hand in the hour I decide not me more mercy full?
I am told that Ireland is the wealthier country in Europe. Where is all the money?
What a shame with all the enemployed ,why can't they help??
Probably not qualified
Ukraines in Ireland don't bother going to Irish hospital they fly back to Ukraine 😂😂😂
That's the fun of it all, like seriously.
I attended limerick Ed last Saturday at 8 30am I got excellent care staff one nicer than the other I had my x-ray a nd got my results promptly gone out the door at 11 am Stop picking on Ukrainian people. Try and remember their is a war going on in their country have a bit of Respect and compassion for those people Remember Irish people that had to emigrate for. Employment and during the Famine Get on to your. Td s. their is a. Lack of Respect for elderly citizens in this country Open Eds in Ennis and Tipperary relive pressure on regional hospital. We have Instant coffee forget instant Care
And they're right. Shocking that a war torn country can provide a better service than "rich" Ireland.
@@valeriefleming2607get a grip Valerie!
Well they go over and back on holidays so yeah probably go back for medical help too.
I have been in most hospitals in this country and UHL is the worst, the ones in gaza are better and that says it all
Go to Dublin!?!? 🤣🤣🤣
I was 11 hours in Beaumont A&E getting a blood test and results! I used to think the London hospitals had long waits (4 hours at most) and you’d be getting plenty more done than a blood test!!!
Go to connelly hospital ull know all about it. I was 10 hours waiting wasn't seen ended up leaving. Waiting room full of foreigners aswell by the way
Vote vote vote wake up sorry to the lady❤❤❤
What’s the HSE actually doing to solve this??? All the top brass in the HSE have failed including the minister for health.
could our tax money not go towards building a new hospital in Limerick rather than millions upon millions going to the Ukraine?
Out on the streets protesting
How dare you isn’t UHL one of Mary Harney’s Centres of Excellence!
Centres of torture
Our Nurses are heroes- what they have to face every day - you wouldn't believe it unless you have witnessed it first-hand
Not all
No, they're not....
Mam
Ireland needs more illegal immigrants I seen a few empty hotels around
Empty hotels? Roderick must be slacking.
Ireland has to help the 3rd world first