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01/09/2023
SF Calls For Executive To Address Chronic Health Waiting Lists
Sinn Féin has highlighted the urgent need for an Executive to address NI's chronic health waiting lists.
Responding to the Department of Health's latest waiting time figures, Sinn Féin MLA Linda Dillon highlighted how each figures "represents a person suffering".
She continued: "This is distressing for patients and their families as life impacting health problems are not being addressed, and in the worst cases resulting in a terminal prognosis.
"Some patients are stuck for months and years on chronic waiting lists for important procedures and treatment and they cannot wait, urgent action is needed to support them quickly.
"They need an Executive formed with no more delay and all parties working together to prioritise health and to invest in the health service to hire more staff and to tackle out of control waiting lists.
"The British government should end its attack on our public services and its savage cuts and deliver proper funding to the tackle the huge problems that exist now."
Responding to the Department of Health's latest waiting time figures, Sinn Féin MLA Linda Dillon highlighted how each figures "represents a person suffering".
She continued: "This is distressing for patients and their families as life impacting health problems are not being addressed, and in the worst cases resulting in a terminal prognosis.
"Some patients are stuck for months and years on chronic waiting lists for important procedures and treatment and they cannot wait, urgent action is needed to support them quickly.
"They need an Executive formed with no more delay and all parties working together to prioritise health and to invest in the health service to hire more staff and to tackle out of control waiting lists.
"The British government should end its attack on our public services and its savage cuts and deliver proper funding to the tackle the huge problems that exist now."
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