Save The Louth Hospital Services

02/04/2025

Ambulance crews were left waiting with patients for up to NINE HOURS at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital this week because there were no beds for them.

05/02/2025

- The Louth Hospital was reduced to a MIA in 2010 with assurance from then Government that a "World Class Hospital would be just 20 mins up the road." A lie then and a crisis now...

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01/01/2025

https://m.independent.ie/regionals/louth/drogheda-news/sharp-rise-in-louth-patients-waiting-on-trolleys-in-aande-dubbed-unsafe-and-unacceptable/a1249760283.html

Some 3,860 patients were left on trolleys and without a bed in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda in 2024.

01/01/2025

https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/ambulances-diverted-from-drogheda-hospital-to-relieve-pressure-on-emergency-department-1712773.html

At one stage early on Monday, ambulances were waiting over 300 minutes with patients outside the emergency department where there were no beds available.

19/11/2024

https://www.dundalkdemocrat.ie/news/general-election/1659352/mcgreehan-says-increased-and-improved-healthcare-services-needed-in-louth.html ....

Remind us ...
Who was it that downgraded the Louth hospital?

FF candidate Senator McGreehan said that health services in Louth are inadequate and not meeting the needs of the people

26/10/2024

https://m.independent.ie/regionals/louth/drogheda-news/report-confirms-unfilled-posts-contributing-to-overcrowded-emergency-department-at-lourdes-hospital/a1676593193.html

The findings of an unannounced HIQA inspection of the Emergency Department at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda in April of this year puts into black and white the issues facing the hospital’s busy emergency department.

14/06/2024

https://www.lmfm.ie/news/lmfm-news/inmo-says-seriously-ill-patients-at-olol-being-left-on-trolleys/ - 162 people on trollies since June 4th and a recruitment freeze.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation says its members in Drogheda are deeply concerned

28/01/2024

27/01/2024

23/01/2024

Is this a joke ?

13/12/2023

Would the political parties who downgraded the Louth Hospital like to apologise also ?

Dundalk woman waited almost four hours for ambulance to come after fall

06/12/2023

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/louth/dundalk-news/ambulance-stations-in-dundalk-and-drogheda-are-not-fit-for-purpose-claims-td/a268966975.html

The ambulance stations in Dundalk and Drogheda are “not fit for purpose” Dundalk TD Ruairí Ó Murchú, stated as he highlighted issues around the National Ambulance Service (NAS) in Louth.