Save portlaoise A&E services now following the Leaked Report of the Midlands. Hospital group management .

Very important petition

Because I live in Athy and if there was a need of going to the emergency room that our region was the closest Portlaoise .After the second as can be disposed of in a hospital emergency department who will take care of now saving the lives and health of people In this region?

If something is broken you fix it..

We need an a&e in our town if they only have it open for few hours our loved ones lives are at risk

It is a disgrace

Serious concerns for the future of the people who are in the Portlaoise catchment area? What hospital has the capacity to facilitate all extra numbers?? Lives will be lost?? It's a disgrace!!

I was very ill in march and needed the a&e services staff were fantastic and they looked after me for 3 days until i got a bed on the medical ward

no other hospital near. Its desperately needed for miles around

I had both of my daughters in portlaoise hospital my eldest in 2008 and my second 20mths later also in portlaoise hospital and if I was having more children I would have them in portlaoise hospital

Save portlaoise hospital

Cause we need our hospital so much

I have 3 small children in emergency I depend on a+e portlaoise ,my partner was in car crash 2 years ago only for the ambulance crew + the a+e dept after 8 ,God knows what way it would have turned out. We dint realise how lucky we r to have these services so near & central

Portlaoise Accident and Emergency service is a much needed, life saving service that we need open 24/7. The community has been fighting closures and downgrades at Portlaoise Hospital for years. We need to change the political will to something more positive and get continuity of the current 24 hour service for the expanding population of Laois and the surrounding Dublin commuter belt. Complex Surgery may need to move however however how does closing an Accident and Emergency Department at night provide for better and safer care sooner? It doesn't. Services may need to be streamlined but streamlined should not mean almost halving the service currently in place an adequate solution which is consistent, reliable and functional for the whole communities needs, should be in place. I think it's a basic human right.

i wouldn,t have my son today if it wasn,t for an excellent midwife and gynaecologist in Portloaise. this will cause deaths downgrading it. stop underfunding it and it would pass any inspections.

A&E services in Portlaoise hospital are extremely important to save lives in an already expanding population, these services need to be sustained and improved NOT reduced.

We need a local hospital and not one that is hour an hour drive away

i wouldn,t have my son today but for the excellent midwife and gynaecologist who gave me an emergency caesarian in 2000. people will die without this 24hr A/E dept n lack of surgical n medical care, and paediatric services. Laois is huge and needs its own functioning hospital. stop underfunding it and it will pass all inspections

A wonderful hospital with wonderful caring staff short of resources... that's the hospitals only real problem at present.