United Ireland is a 'unique opportunity' to create all-island public health service - Duffy

A united Ireland is a unique opportunity to create an all-island public health service that finally ends the crisis in our hospitals, it has been claimed.

Commenting as Derry Sinn Féin launched a new leaflet on the benefits of Irish unity, Sinn Féin councillor Sandra Duffy urged the public to get involved in the discussion about Ireland’s future.

Cllr Duffy said: “A referendum on Irish unity is coming and that represents a unique opportunity to finally end the crisis in our hospitals and create an all-island public health service.

“Our health service is at crisis point and our health and social care workers have been badly let down and neglected as a result of years of cuts and austerity imposed by the British government.

“However, we have a chance to change all that and to build a better future and the kind of health service that our people, and our health and social care workers, deserve.

“Through a united Ireland, we can create an all-island health service that is free at the point of delivery and which provides first class care when its needed and which properly values, respects and rewards the health and social care workforce.

“That is a huge incentive and stands in stark contrast to the constant cycle of crisis and cuts to all our public services offered by the British government.

“At some point we will be asked to choose between those two realities so I would urge everyone to get involved in the discussion now and to begin planning for a new and better future for health and for all public services.”