Brendan Howlin
Ceist:154 Mr. Howlin asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the reason an appointment for treatment in the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7, on 23 March 1992 for a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12 was cancelled by telephone on 20 March 1992 and rescheduled for 25 May; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that this patient is in considerable pain and that she has been greatly embarrassed because of the fact that she had organised with her employer to take appropriate measures to arrange to have her work carried out while she was incapacitated and that these measures will now have to be reorganised to cater for her convalescence following her treatment on 25 May; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
