Health service cutbacks will endanger lives

LIVES will be put at risk by the impending cutbacks in the health service, a top hospital consultant warned yesterday.

Opposition parties, local representatives and health officials also rounded on Health Minister Micheál Martin over plans to cut 200 jobs at the Western Health Board.

Consultant neurologist Hugh Bredin from University College Hospital Galway said the job cuts would result in delays for patients awaiting treatments and lengthen waiting lists.