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Analysis
Overlong waiting times are ‘inhuman and degrading’
A landmark inquiry into emergency health care in Northern Ireland (NI) has found individual human rights violations that amount to inhuman and degrading treatment
Sophie Blakemore
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Posted 08 June 2015
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