94 Covid-19 patients and 60 waiting for hospital bed in the North West
94 Covid-19 patients are being treated in the north west’s two main hospitals today. 48 people are in Letterkenny University Hospital and 46 in Sligo University Hospital; there is also one patient in the ICU in both hospitals. 1,182 people are in an Irish hospital with the virus today, 58…
Sligo Covid-19 Vaccination Centre moving to Nazareth House
The Covid-19 vaccination centre in Sligo is moving from the Racecourse location to a temporary vaccination centre in Nazareth House, HSE, Church Hill, Sligo this week. The first vaccine clinic will take place in the new centre will be administered a week from today on Good Friday, (April 15th).…
Combination of Covid-19 and Hospital overcrowding will hamper the HSE’s efforts to address waiting lists
A Donegal GP is warning that the combination of the increasing number of Covid-19 patients in Hospitals along with severe overcrowding issues will negatively impact Hospitals ability to reduce waiting lists. The HSE’s are also warning its waiting list targets may not be met this year that’s despite a…
Letterkenny Hospital third most overcrowded for month of March
The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation say March was the worst month on record for people awaiting a hospital bed. Letterkenny University Hospital was the third most impacted nationally with a total of 781 patients forced to wait including 12 today. Sligo University Hospital was the sixth most overcrowded around…
Local medical consultant claims Hospitals are not safe for staff or patients
A Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Sligo University Hospital has warned that the Healthcare service is facing the perfect storm as a result of the combination of a hugely transmissible variant of Covid-19 and severe overcrowding in a number of Hospitals. Fergal Hickey claims the government made a…
115 Covid-19 patients being treated in the North West
115 Covid-19 patients are being treated in the north west’s two main hospitals today; down 15 on yesterday’s figure. 68 people are in Letterkenny University Hospital, down 16, and 47 in Sligo University Hospital, up one; there is also one patient in the ICU in both hospitals. 1,466 people are…
Donegal TD links increase of Covid cases with the removal of restrictions
A Donegal TD is calling on the government to address the pressure that Healthcare workers are currently under with the latest surge in Covid-19 cases. Deputy Thomas Pringle says Sligo and Letterkenny University Hospitals are among the hospitals being impacted. The Independent deputy claims there is a link…