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Speaking in advance of the Fine Gael FairCare public meeting to be held in Mullingar Park Hotel this Tuesday, March 30, local Senator Nicky McFadden said: “Over the past 10 years our health service has become a complete shambles with excessively long out-patient waiting lists and short notice operation cancellations just the tip of the iceberg.”

It was a bad weekend on Westmeath roads as two people lost their lives in separate incidents last weekend.

The Midland Regional Diabetes Fund was established recently to raise funds for the new regional diabetes centre which will be established at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar.

Local Senator Nicky McFadden has said that she is outraged at the delay in opening Mullingar’s Sexual Assault Treatment Unit, speaking after the news that the chief executive of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, Ellen O’Malley-Dunlop did not know why the unit, along with the Galway unit, was not open.

The paediatrician at the centre of the ‘Baby P’ scandal in the UK spent some time in training at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, it emerged this week.

A Mullingar man chained himself to a van outside the Midlands Regional Hospital on Wednesday in protest that he can’t access disabled driving spaces.

The HSE has said that the closure of 16 beds at the Midlands Regional Hospital in Mullingar is a routine procedure during the summer months. In a statement, it said that the demand for services reduces over the summer period “where patients take summer holidays and hospitals historically effect bed closures during that period”.

There was relief among staff at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar this week, after the HSE announced it is to defer 11 nursing job cuts at the hospital.

A local TD has voiced his anger at the lack of clarity over the recently revealed missing and not yet replaced dermatology consultant at the Midlands Regional Hospital (MRH) in Mullingar.

Ambulance services have been instructed not to bring patients to the A&E department at the Midlands Regional Hospital, Mullingar, after the hospital was taken off-call yesterday due to overcrowding.