Local campaigners have expressed fears over the potential loss of emergency surgery services at the South West Acute Hospital in Enniskillen, as the Department of Health failed to rule out the downgrade on Monday.
Robin Swann's department published a review of surgery services across Northern Ireland last week in which it set out a set of criteria that hospitals will be required to meet to continue providing emergency and elective surgery.
As part of the review, the Department says there is a ‘pressing need for change’ in hospitals here in order to make them more sustainable.
