The South Westmeath Hospice committee is vowing their campaign is not yet over – despite the first steps being taken.
The South Westmeath Hospice committee is vowing their campaign is not yet over – despite the first steps being taken.
It follows a meeting between committee members, local TDs and Health minister Simon Harris in which he said plans to the facility will be shelved.
Minister Harris also acknowledged that the HSE has gone through the process in the wrong way.
Secretary of the board of the South Westmeath Hospice, Joe Whelan, says there’s still a lot of work to be done:
The Health Minister is due to visit the South Westmeath Hospice unit at St. Vincent’s Care Centre.
The OPW Minister and Longford/Westmeath TD Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran says the Minister knows how important the facility is to the town:
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