HSE’s broken promise on cystic fibrosis facility ‘will cost lives’

DARRAGH CROWLEY believes the Health Service Executive’s broken promise on having a new cystic fibrosis patients’ facility at St Vincent’s Hospital by 2010 will cost lives.

HSE’s broken promise on cystic fibrosis facility ‘will cost lives’

“Our campaign for the new facility was not about the discomfort of being in hospital, it was about the danger associated with being there,” said Darragh, a cystic fibrosis sufferer.

People with CF, he said, suffer a lot of chest infections and every infection permanently damages the lungs so they really need to be in an isolation unit when they are sick.

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