Labour's housing spokesman Conor Sheehan said he was aware of a number of cases in which homeless people have been unable to access healthcare. Photograph: Sam Boal/Collins
A homeless woman who is living in a hotel in Limerick city has been told she cannot have a hysterectomy until she finds “normal accommodation”.
The 44-year-old, who wishes to remain anonymous, said she requires the surgery in order to stop menstrual “flooding” and the “horrendous” pain she has been experiencing.
However, she said a consultant gynaecologist had told he
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