HSE rejects plea to defer Limerick cuts

THE Health Service Executive has rejected pleas from unions not to impose cost-containment measures aimed at meeting a €16 million overspend at the mid-west’s largest hospital.

According to SIPTU and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) management at Limerick’s Mid-Western Regional Hospital have rejected a request to defer the cost-containment measures.

The measures are to be implemented from Monday.