A group of consultant surgeons who played a leading role in the Department of Health’s Review of General Surgery have defended the decision to suspend emergency surgery services at the South West Acute Hospital.
There has been widespread concern around Co Fermanagh after the Western Trust announced the ‘unplanned’ decision to suspend the service, following difficulties in recruiting surgeons for the hospital.
A letter signed by nine consultant surgeons from DOH’s Review of General Surgery Network Board said "a local hospital is not always the best or the safest place to be treated".
