Medical services a Disgrace.

The news that there is a waiting list of over 178,000 people awaiting attention by medical consultants comes as a surprise to me,cynical and all as I am.That some people are waiting over four years to see a consultant is absolutely horrific.
The fact that citizens ,whose tax contributions educate thousands of doctors in Irish medical schools at enormous expense ,have to wait so long for attention is baffling ,particularly as so many Irish doctors emigrate and minister to other peoples.
There is something rotten in a system which allows the wholesale emigration of Irish Doctors and nurses ,educated by the State, being replaced by immigrant Indian and Pakistani doctors and nurses.Nothing against the latter.but they shouldn't be needed in the first place.
The whole secretive world of the medical profession,the health services  and its administration from start to finish needs to be held up to up to examination to see whether it is run for the benefit of the practitioners or for the benefit of the populace as a whole. 
I would say that if you delayed four years in getting proper attention for a sick animal ,you would be prosecuted for cruelty.
Anyone who presides over a system who denies proper medical attention to a sick  human being for such lengthy periods should suffer similar fates.
My uncles used say that a random referee should be shot every week to keep the rest on their toes.It  is probably too extreme to suggest that the same be done to those in charge of the Health Services.
Having said this I have nothing but praise for the staff in Temple Street Hospital ,who gave such expert medical assistance to my grandson at short notice.