Sligo Councillors to contact Health Minister in relation to overcrowding at Sligo University Hospital.
Sligo County Council is to write to Health Minister Stephen Donnelly over concerns regarding overcrowding at Sligo University Hospital. The hospital was the second most overcrowded nationwide with 51 people waiting for a bed at the facility. The issue was raised at the latest sitting of Sligo County…
Health Minister to address INMO conference in Sligo today
The Health Minister Stephen Donnelly will address the Annual Delegate conference of the INMO in Sligo today. Nurses will be discussing their concerns over the rising cost of living at today’s event in the Radisson Blu Hotel The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation will also talk about the…
Health Minster must visit local hospitals
A North West based TD is pleading with the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly to visit hospitals in the Saolta Hospital Group in the West and North West of the Country. Letterkenny University Hospital has had some of the highest numbers of patients on trollies in the Country over…
Health Minister visits North West
The Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly visited the Covid-19 vaccination centres at IT Sligo and the Covid-19 testing centre in Finisklin in County Sligo yesterday. The Minister also paid a visit to the Carrick-on-Shannon vaccination and testing centres in County Leitrim. Minister Donnelly thanked staff for their efforts…
MacSharry has no confidence in Martin and even less in Donnelly
A Sligo Leitrim TD has told a parliamentary party that he has no confidence in the Taoiseach and even less in the Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly. Deputy Marc MacSharry made the remarks after it emerged that the National Public’s Health Emergency Teams’s modelling of the direction Covid could…
Cabinet to discuss minimum pricing for alcohol
The minimum unit price for alcohol products – an measure which is being spearheaded by the Minister of state of the department of health, Frank Feighan will go before cabinet today. Health Minister Stephen Donnelly will seek Government approval to introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol products as…