Nursing home ‘replacing’ public patients

THE owner of a north Dublin nursing home isreplacing public patients with private ones to pay for renovations, say relatives of residents there.

Owner Philomena Dolan last week wrote to relatives of public residents at St Margaret’s Nursing Home telling them of the decision to move out public patients. Some of the residents have Alzheimer’s disease.

Relatives were told it’s to foot a bill for decorating work and improvementsdemanded by the Health Service Executive (HSE).