asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that St. Vincent's Public Voluntary Hospital, Dublin 4, has had to cancel all elective admissions until after 2 January 1989; his views on the nonadmission to date of a person (details supplied) in County Waterford who has been referred from Ardkeen General Hospital, Waterford to this hospital and who also attended the Cork Regional Hospital and who requires urgent treatment for a liver condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers - Hospital Admissions.
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Allegations about a change in the admissions procedure for elective patients to St. Vincent's Hospital were made during the course of the Health Supplementary Estimate debate on Tuesday last, 13 December 1988.
The position is that the authorities of St. Vincent's Hospital have indicated that no decision has been taken to cancel any elective admissions.
The County Waterford patient referred to by the Deputies, who was referred from Ardkeen Hospital to St. Vincent's Hospital for treatment of an abscess on the liver, was admitted to St. Laurence's Ward of St. Vincent's over the past weekend.