asked the Minister for Health if he is aware that great difficulty is being experienced by relatives of patients making telephone inquiries to hospitals about ill relatives and great inconvenience and unnecessary anxiety is being caused to these people due to the poor hospital telephone service; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Hospital Telephone Service.
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I am not aware of any general complaint concerning difficulty experienced by relatives of patients making telephone inquiries to hospitals about patients. If, as I presume, the Deputy has some particular hospital or hospitals in mind I shall follow the matter up if he will send me details.