Member of Regional Health Forum West calls for medical chiefs locally to plan for increase in RSV cases
A Sligo Councillor and member of the Regional Health Forum West is urging the Saolta Hospital Group and HSE chiefs to make sure that adequate resources will be put in place locally to deal with a suspected increase in RSV cases in the North West. Additional intensive care beds had…
Donegal GP’s to meet with SAOLTA management today
A Donegal GP says it’s vital that solutions to ongoing issues that are impacting Letterkenny University are secured at meeting between Donegal GPs senior SAOLTA management today. The meeting has been called to discuss patient safety concerns and other issues at the Donegal facility. GP’s in the county…
Sligo Councillor wants action in relation to extension at Sligo University Hospital
There’s pressure on the Government, the Saolta Hospital Group and the HSE to fast track the planned extension to Sligo University Hospital. The 42 medical block has been in the pipeline for many years however, it’s thought that it’s moving too slow. Sligo County Council is to write…
Saolta Hospitals continue to struggle with overcrowding issues
Sligo university Hospital remains the third most overcrowded hospital in the entire country today. There are currently 51 patients on trollies a increase of three on yesterday’s figures. 30 of the patients are currently waiting in the Hospital’s emergency department. Another Hospital in the Saolta Group, Galway University…
Sligo University Hospital Consultant warns that patients welfare is being placed at risk due to lack of investment
A National Council member of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association and has warned that the growing shortage of essential acute hospital beds and Consultants across the North-West region is leading to longer waiting lists for treatment which is putting people’s welfare at risk. Dr Aine Burke, Consultant Haematologist at Sligo…
Medical experts warns that the lack of a cancer treatment hospital for the local region is costing lives
The delay in appointing a project design team to construct a purpose Model 4 hospital for cancer treatment in the north west and West of the country is costing lives. That’s the view of Professor Michael Kerin of the Saolta Hospital Group, who says such a centre was promised…
Current Covid wave could lead to cancelation of Non-urgent hospital appointments across the Northwest
Non-urgent hospital appointments could be cancelled again if the current Covid wave continues to worsen. That’s the warning from a leading HSE official, with 812 patients in hospital with the virus at the moment. That’s over twice as many as three weeks ago – and the highest in nearly 80…