A small group of people have been protesting in Castlebar’s Market Square for months now, looking for clarity on how Covid patients were and are being managed at Mayo University Hospital since the start of the pandemic.
Martina Burke is one of the protesters and she is now questioning why questions about the hospital raised by county councillors and aired on local and national media over the past number of months have not come before the HSE West Forum meeting for discussion and answers.
In particular, she wants clarity around a letter that was issued to hospital staff last March (2020) by hospital management advising staff not to discuss hospital business outside of the hospital.
She told Midwest News today – that while the content of the letter was read by Westport councillor Christy Hyland into a meeting of Mayo County Council last May, the issue has not been raised by any of the 4 elected Mayo councillors on the Regional Health Forum and she wants to know why.
