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>Concerns for medical emergency at Portlaoise prison >InboxX > >Reply to all >Forward >Reply by chat >Filter messages like this >Print >Add to Contacts list >Delete this message >Report phishing >Report not phishing >Show original >Show in fixed width font >Show in variable width font >Message text garbled? >Why is this spam/non-spam? >Deirdre Fennessy to info, info, saoirse >show details 8 Oct (11 days ago) Reply > > >Department of Justice >Dermot Ahern >Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform >Pinebrook House >71–74 Harcourt Street >Dublin 2 >Phone: + 353 1 602-8202 >Email: info@justice.ie > >Irish Prison Service >IDA Business Park, >Ballinalee Road, >Longford, Co. Longford >Tel: +353 43 35100 >Fax: +353 43 35101 >Email: info@irishprisons.ie > >Governor Mr. T.J. Walsh >Portlaoise Prison >Dublin Road, >Portlaoise, Co. Laois. >Tel: 0502 21318 >Fax: 0502 20997 >Email: info@irishprisons.ie > >To whom it may concern, > >I am writing with grave concerns for the shocking >downturn in the >medical condition of Aidan >Hulme, a Republican political prisoner held at >Portlaoise Prison. > >A recent doctor's visit to Aidan has confirmed that >Aidan's leg >injury has deteriorated to the point that his toes are >now black, giving >rise to fears of possible gangrene. The doctor has >recommended that >Aidan be seen by a medical consultant in this field, >yet the prison >governor, Mr T.J. Walsh, has not yet acted on this >extremely urgent >matter. > >We are appalled at this ongoing situation of medical >neglect at >Portlaoise prison. Aidan Hulme desperately needs >surgery, not more >pills. Currently he is taking 20 tablets for pain per >day. He is >confined to bed 24/7. He has made numerous complaints >and requests for >surgical attention to the Portlaoise prison governor >and to the medical >officer, but has only received more pain pills in >response. His >complexion is now yellow from the morphine patch, and >this may well >indicate liver damage from the excessive pain >medication he has been put >on. > >You will recall, as I do, the 2001 death of another >Republican prisoner, >Kevin Murray, who had also made numerous complaints >and requests for >medical attention. Like Aidan, all that Kevin Murray >received from >Portlaoise doctors were tablets. When the massive >brain tumor was >finally discovered, it was far too late to operate, >and Kevin was >released to hospice to die. > >Please allow Aidan Hulme the urgent specialist care >that he requires. >Under international Human Rights laws including the >Geneva Convention >for the Treatment of Prisoners of War; the European >Convention for the >Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading >Treatment or Punishment; >and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; Aidan >Hulme is entitled >to the same comforts of any Irish citizen while in >your care. > >Please advise. The favor of a response is requested. > >Thank you, > > > >Deirdre Fennessy >P.. Box 11417 >Chicago, IL 60611 > >The Irish Freedom Committee

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