Limerick Mid-Western Regional Hospital’s nursing staff has supported the industrial action as they thought that the closing down of 25 beds was not an appropriate decision.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) notified that they will be polling in favour of the industrial action as the reduction in the staffing and the other resources have deteriorated the standards of the hospital and had put the life of the patients at stake.

The INMO has asked the HSE to provide the adequate accommodation facility to each patient admitted in the wing.

The members of the INMO have drawn their concern over the risk they and the patients face due to the overcrowded wards and no further recruitment of the working staff. The hospital authorities have been compromising with the patient’s health which may bring disgrace to entire health department.

On the other hand, the trade unions also notified that they were not satisfied with the decisions of the management about dealing in the hospital’s medical records department. The storage techniques used by the department was not adequate enough to store the records of the new cases.

Both the groups have unanimously polled to retain back the beds that the HSE had decided to cut last month from the hospital.