The HSE’ set to press ahead with removing ICU services from Ennis General and Nenagh from next year.
It’s all part of the reconfiguration of health services in the Mid West which has already seen the removal of 24 hour A&E cover at Clare’s County Hospital.
Currently, there are six intensive and coronary care beds at Ennis General and five similar beds at Nenagh General.
The HSE is also due to transfer certain parts of Acute medicine from Ennis and Nenagh to the Mid Western Regional Hospital Limerick in 20/10
A spokesperson denied the removal of ICU represent5s a further downgrading of services at the county hospital and says it’s an opportunity to provide a range of services that can and should be delivered locally to the highest possible standard,"
