PRESS RELEASE

THREATENED CLOSURE OF ACCIDENT AND EMERGENCY SERVICES AT WEXFORD GENERAL HOSPITAL

Bishop Peter F. Barrett has heard with concern of the threat to the continuation of services at the A. & E. Department in Wexford General Hospital. He earnestly hopes that the understandable concerns of the Irish Medical Council can be balanced by the needs of the people living in the region which the hospital serves so well and in which this particular Department is an invaluable and greatly appreciated facility

For Immediate Release
12 May 2003

Bishop Barrett is attending the Church of Ireland General Synod at the Stillorgan Park Hotel, Dublin, all this week, and can be contacted through the Press Centre there numbers as follows 01 2881621 or 2831610.

Issued by the Diocesan Information Officer, Kilkenny.

e-mail: dco@cashel.anglican.org

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