Nurses’ fury over promised consultant for casualty department

FURTHER industrial unrest is now brewing at a general hospital which was faced with the threat of losing its casualty service.

Eleventh hour intervention by staff saved Wexford General Hospital's accident and emergency department from closure from Monday next. They cancelled leave, long-fingered holidays and agreed to work longer hours to keep the unit open after two junior doctors resigned.

But now nurses in the hospital who are members of SIPTU and work in the same casualty department are up in arms that a consultant promised in January still has not been appointed.