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28/08/2014
Sinn Féin Seeks Urgent Meeting With Belfast Trust
Sinn Féin are seeking an urgent meeting with the Belfast Trust over ongoing problems in Belfast Accident and Emergency departments.
The party's Paul Maskey said that health minister Edwin Poots, needed to spend "as much time tackling the problem at A&E units as he has on media playing blame games.
The West Belfast MP said: "I have been contacted by unions and staff in the RVH and once again there are dozens on trolleys and at one stage tonight almost 100 people waiting to be seen.
"My colleague Carál Ní Chuilín and I are seeking an urgent meeting with the Belfast Trust as the problems facing staff at Belfast A&E departments are unbearable.
"I'm calling too on the health minister Edwin Poots to step up to the plate.
"He has the largest budget of all ministers in the Executive. He has also received a total of more than £200m of additional funding on top of that budget, including an extra £20m in the latest monitoring round.
"Yet instead of tackling the problems in A&Es he has chosen instead to criticise the Executive, his party colleague the finance minister and just about everyone else for his inaction."
(MH/CD)
The party's Paul Maskey said that health minister Edwin Poots, needed to spend "as much time tackling the problem at A&E units as he has on media playing blame games.
The West Belfast MP said: "I have been contacted by unions and staff in the RVH and once again there are dozens on trolleys and at one stage tonight almost 100 people waiting to be seen.
"My colleague Carál Ní Chuilín and I are seeking an urgent meeting with the Belfast Trust as the problems facing staff at Belfast A&E departments are unbearable.
"I'm calling too on the health minister Edwin Poots to step up to the plate.
"He has the largest budget of all ministers in the Executive. He has also received a total of more than £200m of additional funding on top of that budget, including an extra £20m in the latest monitoring round.
"Yet instead of tackling the problems in A&Es he has chosen instead to criticise the Executive, his party colleague the finance minister and just about everyone else for his inaction."
(MH/CD)
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