Drumm call for cutbacks ‘outrageous’

MEMBERS of the independent Workers and Unemployed Action Group in Clonmel have described comments by HSE boss Professor Brendan Drumm on hospital cutbacks as “outrageous”.

Professor Drumm said that there was unnecessary retention of patients at South Tipperary General Hospital in Clonmel and up to 40% of patients should be moved out.

The HSE chief executive had been asked to justify the closure of one operating theatre and six surgical beds at the hospital.