Nowadays, however, as hospitals have become great jobs-farms dominated by fearless and arrogant unions, the statistics are thoroughly Zimbabwean: on average, nearly 10pc of the HSE workforce are on sick leave every single day, (though Monday is when “illness” peaks, at nearly 20pc of the workforce in some hospitals) and time off for having children has really become eternity leave. A male patient can be admitted to an HSE hospital suffering from sore tonsils, and within a week he has contracted fallopian dry-rot, ovarian distemper and uterine rabies, and both his feet have been amputated. But at least, with luck, he’ll still have his sore tonsils. (Independent) >
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