*Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG) in the Seanad. POTENTIAL for building a second emergency department in the Mid-West will be reviewed next year, the Minister for Health has said.
*Packed corridors at UHL. NO NEW hospital will be built in Ennis and instead a new site in close proximity to University Hospital Limerick (UHL) will be constructed, as per new plans unveiled by the Minister for Health.
*Tánaiste Simon Harris is welcomed to Kilkishen by Clare TD, Joe Cooney (FG) along with Cllr Pat Burke (FG) and Cllr Conor Ryan (FG). Photograph: Kevin Donovan. TÁNAISTE, Simon Harris (FG) has said an additional hospital facility is needed in the Mid-West region, weeks before the Health Minister is to issue recommendations on actions to …
*Mid-West Oireachtas members at a meeting in Leinster House. A UNITED front has been mounted by politicians in the Mid-West in views expressed to the Minister for Health on future emergency healthcare services in the region.
A Shannon woman who was flagged at two Limerick hospitals for “sepsis”, but who was not given the prescribed medication in time, died from cardiac respiratory failure, a day after suffering a miscarriage, her inquest has heard.
*Leona Cusack. A young Shannon woman’s family are “haunted” by the fear that her death, a day after suffering a miscarriage, could have been prevented if she had received sepsis medication faster, her inquest heard.
Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, pictured with the Mayor of Limerick John Moran and (right) Patrick O’Donovan, Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport. Picture: Don Moloney A DECISION will be made before Christmas on whether a new hospital will be built in Ennis, the Minister for Health has confirmed.
Patrick Madden, from Castleconnell, County Limerick, meets Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill and HSE CEO Bernard Gloster on Ward 9C, University Hospital Limerick, after the Minister opened the new 96-bed Block at UHL on Monday October 13th. Picture: Don Moloney A €105m 96-bed inpatient block has been officially opened by the Minister for Health, …
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OIREACHTAS members from Clare and Limerick have given their backing to a three-tier plan to expand hospital capacity in the Mid-West, following publication of HIQA’s review of urgent and emergency care services in the region.
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL LIMERICK (UHL) has appealed to the public to use available alternative services as it is experiencing “exceptionally high demand” with a significant amount of admitted patients already on trolleys.