Sir, – I accompanied my very ill, elderly mother to the emergency department in St Vincent’s hospital, Elm Park, on last Monday afternoon as the Dublin marathon was coming to an end. I was horrified to see that the emergency department was swamped with casualties from this allegedly healthy activity. Several marathon runners were in a serious condition requiring urgent treatment.
Should there not be a health warning attached to this activity? Surely our excellent and overburdened emergency teams should not have this unnecessary workload inflicted on them? – Yours, etc,
JACINTA McLOUGHLIN,
Ashbourne,
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Co Meath.