A HSE decision to identify a site in Sligo as the sole preferred option for a new surgical hub in the North West has been described as "flawed, unjustified, and deeply damaging".
It comes as more than 170 doctors based in Donegal have sent a joint letter to the Minister for Health demanding an urgent meeting over the HSE's plans to overlook Letterkenny as the location for a planned surgical hub in the region.
Concerned consultants and senior doctors at Letterkenny, as well as GPs across Donegal, sought the meeting with Jennifer Carroll MacNeill to address what they describe as a "critical threat to patient care and health equality in the north west.
Speaking to Ocean FM news, Donegal Sinn Fein TD Pearse Doherty says there is no denying that a hub needs to b delivered for Letterkenny:
