Impact felt over closure of Sligo's Pain Clinic

The recent closure of the Pain Clinic in Sligo is said to be having an impact on not only the patients who had been using it, but also on the public purse. Since June, the clinic is no longer taking new referrals and is now effectively reduced to a partial one day a week clinic which is due to finish within a few months. According to local Sinn Fein Cllr Thomas Healy, its closure is effectively leading to the privatisation of the service at a massive cost to the taxpayer. Cllr Healy says that the HSE has also fallen silent on the matter, which is totally unacceptable: