‘Sticking plaster’ service puts brain bleed patients at risk
A shortage of neurological intensive care beds means patients are not getting the treatment that could save their lives, writes Susan Mitchell
Nuala Lawless collapsed after suffering a brain bleed in December 2005. She was brought to Tallaght Hospital, where she waited to be transferred to the neurosurgical centre at Beaumont Hospital.
Nuala waited days to access Beaumont, one of only two hospitals in Ireland where doctors can provide the emergency treatment needed to prevent another brain bleed.
She waited and she waited. Two weeks after her initial collapse, she suffered a second ...
