The Peoples opinion on the Irish Public Health System

[aircobra19]

I'd agree with most of the above.

One thing that was said to me was that when the religious orders were a positive force in the health services. I'm too young to have direct experience of that, but its would make sense that the religious ethos is
more in line with patient care and cleaniness than pure commercial concerns. "Cleaniness is next to Godliness" etc. I'd have a more jaundiced view of religions but I remember hospital being better in the past.

 

[Jaid79]

I'd agree with most of the above.

One thing that was said to me was that when the religious orders were a positive force in the health services. I'm too young to have direct experience of that, but its would make sense that the religious ethos is
more in line with patient care and cleaniness than pure commercial concerns. "Cleaniness is next to Godliness" etc. I'd have a more jaundiced view of religions but I remember hospital being better in the past.

Its crazy to think in a "developed country" cleaners, careworkers, nurses, doctors and other members of staff, need to told the on an ongoing bases the importance of washing their hands.

I was in a dublin hospital and seen the "cleaner" rub the floor with a wet cloth, she then used the same cloth to "clean" areas of the wall. She then pulled a chair up and sat down telling me how all the forgeiners are taking their "jobs" Pleople like her make me sick!

Jaid