New Figures Show 127,000 People On Waiting Lists For Primary-Care Services
More than 18,000 have been waiting more than a year.
It comes as a Primary Care Centre was recently opened in Carrigaline in an attempt to alleviate Cork's hospital overcrowding crisis
The centre has a dedicated wound clinic as well as dental, physiotherapy and occupational therapy departments with 125 healthcare professionals seeing to around 3,000 patients at the centre every week.
Fianna Fáil's spokesman of primary care, John Brassil, says more centres are needed across the the country:
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