Tallaght Hospital

The second star is for the poor staff working under terrible conditions and bureaucracy. The A&E would make you sick with the queues and the amount of trolleys lined up in the corridors. When I was there with my sister in law (appendicitis) it was like a third world facility in the middle of a battle zone. To be avoided at all costs. The fact that she had private healthcare didn’t matter a jot and she still waited 15 hours to be seen.

I feel torn writing this review as it’s more an opinion on the criminally bad Irish health care.
The hospital itself is modern and clean, well at least in Accident & Emergency. The staff are exhausted and yet still are civil, they do a tremendous job.
Yet there is something rotten to the core when I have to wait with my friend from 9:30pm till 9:30 am the following day so that she can get an scan. She has private health care too.
What is even more depressing is the man in the wheelchair with the bleeding ear who came shortly after us was still waiting as we left exhausted the next day. What is going on with this country? We can’t even treat the sick with humanity.
Oh they refused to give her a scan until her GP refereed her to a neuro specialist and then, waste of time … Money money money.