Local election candidate Sinead Flynn has highlighted the pressures that local health services are facing in rural communities. Ms Flynn is running as a Sinn Fein candidate in next month's local election for the Ballybay-Clones Municipal District. According to Ms Flynn, communities are "crying out for help" while GPs are at "breaking point." The local election hopeful highlighted that in some cases elderly residents are "suffering" with many in chronic pain and waiting years to see a consultant. If in government, the Smithboro native believes that her party would set practical, realistic, and deliverable goals to improve the health service.
Speaking to Northern Sound, she believes that real change is needed and needed soon. "It's baffling to see that in a time when the government should have been responding to our growing population by providing a strategic recruitment and retention plan with additional funding and supports for our health service, they instead imposed a freeze on recruitment. Our General Practices are under immense strain, some have had no option but to close their list to new patients and the government has failed to act. It is evident that real change is needed. Real change can begin on the 7th June by people getting out and using their voice by giving government parties a clear message and voting for Sinn Féin in the Local and European elections."
