Irish Examiner view: Empathy needed in our health service

Funding may result in more staff and better facilities, but more compassion for distressed and bereaved families would be a welcome development

Eve Cleary from Corbally, Limerick, spent a significant period of time on a hospital trolley in a UHL corridor and died hours after being discharged. Picture Brendan Gleeson

Readers will be well aware of the pressing need for investment in the health service, particularly when it comes to our overcrowded and understaffed hospitals.

A programme of targeted investment would be welcome on several fronts, but principally because it might reduce the number of distressing cases we have seen in recent weeks, such as that of Eve Cleary in University Hospital Limerick (UHL).