Visitor restrictions in place at UHL due to outbreak of vomiting bug
Staff at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) are investigating the outbreak of norovirus on one ward and it has prompted the decision to introduce visitor restrictions.
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Harris called on to let GPs refer patients to Galway Clinic to aid UHL overcrowding
Minister for Health, Simon Harris has been written to by Clare County Council asking that GPs be given the power to refer patients to facilities in the private sector due to ongoing overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick.
Elective surgeries cancelled as UHL deals with record overcrowding
A number of elective surgeries at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) have been cancelled with increased ward rounds conducted to transfer and discharge patients as staff attempt to cope with record overcrowding.
‘If this was animals Frankie Coote would be at the door’ McMahon hits out at health service
*Marie McMahon. Photograph: John Mangan Much stricter punishments would be in place were animals treated the way patients attempting to access health care in the Mid-West, a local health activist has claimed.
‘My mother would rather die than go back to UHL’
A West Clare woman has outlined the dilemma she is faced with should her elderly mother get seriously ill once again.
Bereaved families “traumatised” following hospital experiences
Recently bereaved children spoke at the appalling treatment endured by their parents in different health facilities on either side of Clare at Monday’s meeting of the Mid-West Health Campaign.
Health-service is ‘terribly unsafe’ – Moran
*Noeleen Moran. Members of the public have been left in “a terribly unsafe situation” with such high overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick and University Hospital Galway, organisers of regional campaign group have stated.
‘No quick fix’ to health problems in the Mid-West – Dr Harty
There is no “quick fix” to the health crisis that is affecting thousands of families across the Mid-West, Clare TD Dr. Michael Harty has outlined.
‘Patients being ferried from A&E to wards to mask overcrowding figures’, claims former councillor
Members of the Mid-West Hospital Campaign have claimed management at University Hospital Limerick are trying to mask the problem of overcrowding in the accident and emergency unit by ferrying patients to already packed wards throughout the hospital.
Monday’s public meeting ‘the time to speak up’ on health service
*Photograph: John Mangan “An urgent public meeting” has been called to address continuous overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick (UHL).
