Uncertain future for Enniscrone and Easkey day care centres
A West Sligo Councillor is calling for the reopening of the day care centres situated in Enniscrone and Easkey. The Centres which would cater for approximately 60 users have been closed since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. Before Covid users of the facilities would be transported to their…
Staff shortage leading to lack of home help hours in the north west
The HSE cannot provide 1,962 hours of home care support in the region. A shortage of Home Care Assistants across the CHO1 area, which covers Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan is leading to the delay in supports. Sligo Leitrim TD Martin Kenny says the situation is extremely serious as…
HSE chief expects little disruption to health services despite increasing covid numbers
Despite the announcement yesterday that only a small amount of elective surgeries were going to proceed across the Saolta Hospital Group, (which includes Sligo and Letterkenny University hospitals) the HSE’s Chief Clinical Officer has said today that there are no immediate plans to cancel further health services despite a rise…
Pringle calls on Paul Reid and HSE Directors to resign
The Donegal TD who raised concerns in relation to the sexual abuse of residents at the HSE run Ard Greine Court Complex and Sean o Hare Unit in St Josephs Hospital in Stranorlar has called for the HSE’s CEO and board to resign. An unpublished report found that at…
‘Lessons need to be learned’ from report into sexual abuse at Donegal care centre
The Disabilities Minister says it’s “imperative” that lessons are learned from a report into sexual abuse at a Donegal care centre. A review of the HSE-run facility has found a number of residents were subjected to sustained abuse between 2003 and 2016. Many of the victims of the perpetrator, who’s…
ITSligo vaccination centre closes for final time
Tributes are being paid to the frontline workers who have been administering Covid-19 vaccines in Sligo for the past 8 months. The vaccination centre at the Knocknarea arena at ITSligo closed for the final time yesterday at 4pm after adminstering over 110,000 vaccines. Sligo Councillor, Donal Gilroy and member of…
Hopes planning permission will be submitted soon for Tubbercurry Primary Care Centre
Planning permission is hoped to be submitted for the long awaited Primary Care Centre for Tubbercurry before the end of the year. Initial hopes were that it would be underway by 2020 but the Covid-19 pandemic and the cyber attack on the HSE’s computer network meant required information was not…