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Sat 01 Jan 2006Surgeon assails neurosurgery service 'mess '
About 200 patients throughout the country are on an urgent waiting list for a bed at the national neurosurgery centre in Beaumont, according to a senior surgeon at the Dublin hospital.
The condition of 10 of those patients is life-threatening, said Prof Ciarán Bolger, head of research and development in neurosurgery at Beaumont and head of clinical neurosurgery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Dublin.
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