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Chairperson of Mid West Health Planning Board appointed

For years, people across Limerick, Clare and North Tipperary have been told the Midwest needs a long-term plan to fix its healthcare system.


Today, another step has been taken with the appointment of a new chairperson to oversee a health planning board that will map out the future of healthcare in the region, including how to ease pressure on University Hospital Limerick and where future services should be located. And of course the


Minister of State at the Department of Health, Limerick City, Fianna Gael, TD, Kieran O'Donnell, joined the show.


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