Irish Examiner view: HSE treatment of medical equipment is sickening

The dumping of walking aids behind a building, at the mercy of all weathers, is a terrible waste of resources but past experience of HSE errors suggests it is unlikely that anyone will be held responsible

A line of walking aids outside a HSE storage facility in Ardcavan, Wexford. Picture: Deirdre Taaffe

The messes and malfunctions of the HSE have fuelled many a headline over the years, and this week we had another sighting of the HSE in action — or perhaps inaction.

As reported by Neil Michael in this newspaper, Wexford mother Deirdre Taaffe — whose son had to wait six weeks for a wheelchair — has called on the HSE to explain why “nearly new” walking aids are being stored in the open air behind a supply depot.