Fresh protest over University Hospital Limerick overcrowding
A YEAR to the day after 11,000 people marched in protest at overcrowding in University Hospital Limerick (UHL), a demonstration will take place.
Garryowen man Mike Daly is organising the event next Sunday, January 21.
Demonstrators will meet in the car park to the rear of Crescent Shopping Centre and march towards UHL’s gates in Dooradoyle. It’s to begin at 1pm.
Mr Daly, who organised the march in January 2023, says the key demands remain the same - reinvest in the hospitals in the region and to reopen the emergency departments in St John’s Hospital in the city centre plus those at Nenagh and Ennis.
“Things have become worse. That’s exactly the way people feel about it in the country. Since the last march, up to now, nothing has been done,” Mr Daly told the Limerick Leader.
He claimed bosses in the HSE and at University of Limerick Hospitals Group did not pay any attention following last January’s protest, believed to be the largest demonstration over health in Limerick.
Ahead of the march, Mr Daly has issued 10,000 flyers, and says he has had confirmation from 800 people they will attend.
There will be no speeches this time, he added.