Dr. Orla Tinsley
@orlatinsley
Multi - Award Winning Artist / Author / Teacher / Activist / Speaker⚡️ MFA @ColumbiaSOA ⚡️ Arts Council Literature Award / Rare Disease Advocate / Ninja ⚡️
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30-09-2010 20:27:50
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Stephen Donnelly please take the time to read this powerful piece. Harrowing that patients in our healthcare system have to endure this and fight to stay alive.
I have many people to thank for helping this book make it into the world-prime among them Fiona de Londras & Prof Rosie Harding for wonderful PhD supervision some moons ago, Siobhán Mullally (UN SR Trafficking in Persons) & my Irish Centre for Human Rights University of Galway Law colleagues, & Ollscoil na Gaillimhe | University of Galway NUI for Open Access support.
In 1986, Andy Kavanagh underwent a heart transplant at the #Mater and he is now the longest living heart transplant patient in Ireland. #OurMaterTeam were delighted to welcome Andy to the #Mater to celebrate the 38th anniversary of his transplant Mater Transplant Emer Joyce