The Rehab Unit attached to Dungarvan Community
Hospital is to close.
Patients at the Sacred Heart Unit were told
over the weekend that the unit was to close with immediate effect.
Fianna Fail TD for Waterford Mary Butler has
said that she was contacted over the weekend with the news.
The unit was built in 1996 and has twenty six
beds which include beds for Physio, Rehab and Palliative Care beds.
Seven of the twenty six beds were closed in
January with the remainder of the beds to go from the middle of this week.
It’s the second time in six months that such a
bed unit closure for hospitals in Waterford was announced over a Bank Holiday
weekend.
Over the October Bank Holiday weekend in 2016
it was announced that University Hospital Waterford was to have ten inpatient
beds closed on a temporary basis due to a shortage of nurses.
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