Please help! Alarming Concern For Aiden Hulme

[Papa C.]

Alarming Concern For IPOW Aidan Hulme
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Alarming concern has been expressed for the continuing medical condition of republican prisoner Aidan Hulme in Portlaoise Prison. Following a visit from a Doctor it was observed that Aidan’s toes on his injured leg had turned black giving rise to fears of possible gangrene. The Doctor relayed to the Prison Governor that Aidan should be seen by a Consultant in this field as a medical imperative. The Governor has stated that Aidan’s case would be prioritised but as of yet no decisive action has been taken.


Aidan is currently on twenty one tablets a day and requires the use of Morphine Patches to alleviate pain. His complexion has turned yellow which may indicate liver damage as a result of the high dosage of medication. He is currently confined to bed twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. The Irish Republican Prisoners Welfare Association urges all republican and socialist groups to campaign vigorously to ensure Aidan’s medical needs are urgently met. We will be petitioning Minister Dermot Ahern to intervene immediately so that Aidan can receive the proper medical attention in a proper medical facility.


Marian Price
Irish Republican Prisoners Welefare Association (IRPWA)

I (in a personal capacity) would ask everyone to copy this letter and send it to the people listed. Please also send it to friends to get them to send and so on.


We need to pressure the (in)justice department and prison service into doing something


Department of Justice
Dermot Ahern
Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform
94 St.
Stephen's Green
Dublin 2
Phone: + 353 1 602-8202
Email: [e-mail]

Irish Prison Service
IDA Business Park, Ballinalee Road, Longford, Co.
Longford
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

Governor Mr. T.J.
Walsh
Portlaoise Prison
Dublin Road,
Portlaoise, Co. Laois.

Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Email: [e-mail]

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To whom it may concern,

I am writing with grave concerns for the health and welfare of Aidan Hulme, a Republican political prisoner at Portlaoise Prison.


Since being repatriated to Portlaoise in 2006, Aidan has continued to suffer great pain from injuries sustained over six years ago before being interned in Britain. It was his great hope, as mine, that his repatriation to Ireland would finally result in the proper medical care he so badly needs.


Aidan Hulme desperately needs surgery, not more pills. Currently he is taking 21 tablets for pain per day and Morphine patches once every 2 days. 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.


He is in severe pain. In bed and therefore closed in his cell 24 hours a day 7 days a week. His skin has turned yellow which may indicate liver damage as a result of so much medication.



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 simple operation 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 and his treatment is a priority and should be treated as such.


Please advise. The favor of a response is requested.


Thank you,

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ADDRESS

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Please, please, please post this everywhere and anywhere you can. The Irish prison service and Irish Government will do nothing if we don't get international attention for this issue and shame them into providing medical attention.