A local TD has called for trainee doctors to be assigned to Cavan Monaghan Hospital.
Deputy Brendan Smith said interns had not been allocated to the hospital despite its services expanding over the last number of years.
The Cavan Monaghan TD says the vast majority of level 3 hospitals have interns but Cavan-Monaghan hospital, despite promises, has not been facilitated with trainee doctors, Deputy Smith added that without trainees, this hospital will have difficulty in recruiting and retaining Irish-trained doctors on qualification as they will not have the experience of working there previously.
He said that over the years, management and staff at all levels have worked hard in the hospital to expand considerably the range of health services provided locally and is regarded as having excellent training opportunities across a range of specialties. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly informed Deputy Smith that his department would be looking into this to see what can be done for Cavan-Monaghan in terms of medical internship deployment for the next round.
Deputy Smith says the hospital has the personnel and facilities to provide appropriate training for such doctors and he is hopeful that trainee doctors will be placed at the local hospital in the very near future
