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It is with great sadness that we announce our beloved friend and committee member, Crona Sheehan (nee Ward), succumbed to her illness and will be laid to rest today in her native Donegal. Since June 2016 Crona has been fighting hard on behalf of Sarcoma patients to ensure they get the care they deserve. Crona fought Sarcoma for 12 long years and she knew the value of a Sarcoma specialist to her and others. Despite her illness, Crona devoted herself to Sarcoma Ireland. At the requiem mass, the Sheehan family pleaded with Health Minister Harris to keep his promise that he personally made to Crona in July 2016. Minister Harris, please intervene and meet with us to appoint a sarcoma expert now, in memory of dear Crona.
Minister Harris you are still avoiding the meeting Sarcoma Ireland have requested , why are the TD's and Senators of Ireland not forcing this meeting to happen , you have all been made aware of the wrong doing and have all been asked for your support
Every day this campaign goes on patients are loosing out on specialist care as a direct result of your broken promise and your lack of will and self dignity to intervene and correct the wrong doing
Shame on you Minister Harris and all who you cover for
*Please Like & Share* July 2016 - "you will have an expert of the same or greater experience", Simon Harris. This was the promise to Sarcoma Ireland. May 2017 - We have no expert and Harris fobs us off and says its a HSE "service delivery matter". July 2016 - May 2017 - 9 deaths from Sarcoma (that we know of) See the latest response from Simon Harris below. DÁIL QUESTION addressed to the Minister for Health (Simon Harris T.D.) for WRITTEN ANSWER on 25/05/2017 * To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by a group (details supplied) regarding an appointment at consultant level; and if he will make a statement on the matter. REPLY. The Deputy's question relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him.
Almost one year on. Broken Promises. Patients have died. And nothing to show for it. Either Simon Harris TD lied to us when he promised equal or greater experience, or he was railroaded by the corrupt nature of Saint Vincents University Hospital. Either way, these are not qualities of a public representative be it a TD, Minister or Taoiseach. Where is your shame?
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July 2016 - "you will have an expert of the same or greater experience", Simon Harris. This was the promise to Sarcoma Ireland.
May 2017 - We have no expert and Harris fobs us off and says its a HSE "service delivery matter".
July 2016 - May 2017 - 9 deaths from Sarcoma (that we know of)
See the latest response from Simon Harris below.
DÁIL QUESTION addressed to the Minister for Health (Simon Harris T.D.)
for WRITTEN ANSWER on 25/05/2017
* To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the concerns expressed by a group (details supplied) regarding an appointment at consultant level; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
REPLY.
The Deputy's question relates to service delivery matters and accordingly I have asked the HSE to respond directly to him.
Thank you, everyone, for your continued support. We are making progress but we are not there yet.
Please message us here or send your email address to info@sarcoma.ie and we will send you a template letter and email address for you to make contact with your local TD/Senator.
By writing to your local politician you will help us keep momentum and pressure on Minister for Health, Simon Harris to keep his promise of providing a Sarcoma Specialist with experience equal or greater to what we had.