Sinn Féin Finance Spokesperson Deputy Pearse Doherty and Senator Pádraig MacLochlainn will this morning deliver a petition to the Department of Health calling on the Government to immediately approve funding for the reopening of the 19 bed Short Stay Ward at Letterkenny University Hospital.
The petition, which was initiated as part of the party’s on-going campaign to have the facility reopened and has since garnered 5,689 signatures from people across the county.
Donegal Senator Padraig Mac Lochlainn is hopeful that the petition will put further pressure on the Health Minister:
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