One of Ireland's busiest hospitals is to get an extra 20 to 30 999 cases a day to deal with from next Monday.
But Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda is getting no extra nurses, no extra doctors, no extra clerical staff to deal with the extra workload and there are real fears patients will die.
Senior HSE management decided to move all acute emergency calls in County Meath from Our Lady's Hospital, Navan to the Lourdes because it does not believe it is safe for Navan to deal with them.