A consultant at University Hospital Kerry (UHK) said Health Minister Simon Harris should see for himself the amount of imaging equipment that is lying idle or broken. Consultant radiologist Martin Schranz was among 24 consultants who met with Gerry O’Dwyer, CEO of the South SouthWest Hospital Group (SSWHG), last Friday to highlight longstanding concerns about consultant staffing deficits and under-resourcing. Dr Schranz said the the department of radiology was “in dire need of more space, equipment, and staff, in order to fulfil the demands being placed on it, as a level 3 hospital”. “I would ask that the minister, Simon Harris, come down himself and walk around the hospital, to see for himself the state it is in,” he said. Last October, the hospital had to review 46,000 scans, after concerns about the professionalism of a radiologist who no longer works at the hospital.

Source: Irish Examiner September 10, 2018 04:18 UTC