Decision to be taken this week on easing measures
Public health experts will decide this week how the pandemic containment measures can be eased. Health minister Simon Harris hopes a plan will be announced around May 5th. Yesterday the Department of Health announced 26 more covid-19 patients had died and 701 more people had tested positive. Locally there are…
Leitrim CC to call on government to deal with waiting times for children’s outpatient appointments
Leitrim County Council is to call on the Minister for Health Simon Harris and the Minister for Children Katherine Zappone to provide the necessary resources to deal with the long waiting times for children needing outpatient appointments such as paediatric specialists, speech and language and in the Child and Adolescent…
Health Minister promises progress on Sligo Diabetes Services
The subject of diabetes services in Sligo University Hospital has been raised again in the Dail. Sligo Leitrim Sinn Fein TD, Deputy Martin Kenny raised the matter once again this week Deputy Kenny says the issue could easily be resolved by reversing the decision to relocate the diabetes…
Protestors make their point known to Health Minister in Ballymote
Health Minister Simon Harris says new primary health care centres provide a wide range of integrated services as well as giving staff modern and appropriate facilities. He was speaking at the official opening of one of those new centres, in Ballymote, Co Sligo, this afternoon. The new centre, provided under…
Health Minister: ‘We can build world-class cardiac services’
The Health Minister has given a guarantee that ‘world-class’ cardiac facilities are on the way to the Northwest. Cardiac cath labs play a key role in the treatment and diagnosis of heart conditions, including heart attacks. Currently only a mobile unit visits Sligo University Hospital once a week. Fine Gael,…
Health Minister to meet HSE on overcrowding crisis
The Health Minister is due to meet the head of the HSE this afternoon. Tony O’Brien’s due to give Simon Harris an update on overcrowding at the country’s Emergency Departments. The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is expected to give another update later on the number on trolleys awaiting admission…