Nurses warn of TB threat if patients moved

NURSES have warned of a TB threat if patients treated in a specialist clinic are transferred to already overcrowded general hospitals.

Peamount Hospital in Newcastle, Co Dublin, is proposing to phase out the provision of all chest/respiratory services from January 2004.

Today nurses at Peamount who are members of the Irish Nurses Organisation (INO) will stage a lunchtime protest outside the hospital's gates to increase awareness about the development.