St Bricin's students highlight need for more hospitals in Ireland

The group’s project was inspired by the declining number of hospitals in Ireland from the 2000's

A group of St Bricin’s students, Áine McGovern, Ruta Dulaityte and Alicja Czop created a project aimed at ‘Evaluating the Impact of Hospital Visibility and Scholarly Contributions – An Intra-Country and Inter-Country Comparison’ in the Social & Behavioural Sciences section.

Speaking to The Anglo-Celt at the exhibition, Áine explained more: “Our project is about the visibility and scholarly contributions made by hospitals in Ireland. It compared the hospitals in Ireland and their funding locally to their contributions and their rankings on a global scale.”

The group’s project was inspired by the declining number of hospitals in Ireland from the 2000s with 182 nationally to just 86 hospitals currently. “There was a drastic fall between 2008 and 2009,” Rita found.

The group concluded the reduced number of hospitals available was influenced by multiple factors including a lack of qualified health care professionals available in the country.