End the recruitment ban - essential frontline health staff must be hired

Issued : Monday 14 April, 2008

THE GOVERNMENT MUST HIRE ESSENTIAL HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS TO
FILL VACANT POSTS

On Wednesday the 16th of April Labour Youth will be holding a protest outside the Dept. of Health & Children highlighting our Complete and total opposition to the current freeze on recruitment in the Health Services.

The recruitment ban has led to:
- A crisis in Accident and Emergency
- Public health patients waiting in pain on hospital waiting lists while others can buy healthcare that everyone is entitled to
- A skills drain from Ireland with trained healthcare graduates forced to emigrate to find employment At the same time the government is giving lucrative tax breaks to wealthy corporations to build private hospitals on public grounds. They are deliberately causing a crisis in public health care to pave the way for privatisation.
Protest to end the recruitment banWednesday April 16th
At the Department of Health, Hawkins Street 1 pm