The Health Minister Dr James Riley says it will be months before services at Letterkenny General Hospital will be able to return to normal.
James Reilly visited the hospital today to see first hand the devastation caused by Friday’s floods.
Hundreds of volunteers have been working around the clock on the clean up.
In an exclusive interview with Highland Radio News Minister Reilly said the Government will work “step-by-step” with hospital management to overcome the problems caused by the floods.
When asked as to why lessons were not learned by flooding at the hospital during construction of its new wing, Dr Reilly said it would have been hard to prepare for the Friday’s deluge:
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