Friday, February 10, 2017
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Cork need to send out a signal
Friday, February 10
Evening Echo
Cork Sports World
Cork’s Conor Lehane tries to go past Clare’s Ben O’Gorman their recent Munster during League game played Hurling in Sixmilebridge. The two counties will lock horns again the National League tomorrow evening. Picture: Brian Gavin Press 22
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I’m suffering awful pain, and I have to wait at least 18 months for surgery… Cork look to se a Clare signalnd
Yet I could get an operation straight away if I went private, but at a cost of €8,200 A BALLYPHEHANE woman who lives every day with chronic pain has hit out at the hospital waiting lists that have made her feel worthless.
Elaine Davis is waiting anxiously for much-needed surgery.
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Elaine Davis, a 42-year-old mother of two, was diagnosed with Adult-onset Still’s disease, a rare systemic inflammatory disease, in 2013. Recommended to undergo hip replacement surgery early last year, she has now been told that a public operation is un-
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■ Audrey Ellard Walsh likely to be scheduled in the next 18 months, and she is considering taking out a loan to fund the treatment privately. This comes as it was revealed yesterday that there are now 630,000 public patients on waiting lists in Ireland — an alltime record high. Elaine said: “I saw a surgeon in October. I told him that I am on the public list and he said that he could not foresee seeing me at any time in the public sys-
tem. He said that if I wanted to get it done in a public hospital privately, I could get it done whenever I wanted, that there was no problem privately. “It’s €8,200 to get the two hips done so do we get a credit union loan, what do we do? “When you’re in your darker moments you do really feel that you’re worthless or forgotten. “You say... how could anyone feel that it’s okay to let people wait like this?” ■ See Page 9 for more.
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