People may be sick of reading about the problems in the health service – especially, of late, problems in women’s health services – but for the medical personnel trying to wade through the problems and simply do their job every day, it can be even worse. A lot depends on attitude, and many Irish doctors [...]
A lack of doctors trained in the provision of obstetric ultrasounds means pregnant women do not always have their scans overseen by a clinician, according to a leading Irish obstetrician who has specialised in pre-natal screening. Prof Fergal Malone, from the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) said [...]
The violent attack on a consultant psychiatrist in Limerick last week is an “unhappy reminder” of the improvements needed in mental health services, particularly forensic services, according to the Irish College of Psychiatrists’ public education spokesperson, Dr Rachael Cullivan. Dr Ananth Pullela, a specialist in forensic psychiatry in St Anne’s day hospital in Limerick, received [...]
You would think that – of all groups – ambulance drivers would be able to access speedy treatment, but in the case of one County Galway ambulance driver recently, it was slow as Monday morning traffic on the M50. The story begins when the driver took a sick child from Ballinasloe to the Children’s Hospital [...]
A toothfairy-like figure appears to be haunting Mayo General Hospital, tip-toeing around wards – sorry, around trolleys and chairs – where patients sleep, leaving notes under their pillows apologising for the conditions at the hospital. It may not make up for actually having a bed, but it’s better than listening to the usual rumblings from [...]
This guy, about fiftyish and fairly well-dressed, was dandering through Dublin city-centre the other night carrying a cardboard box, which was nearly full with what appeared to be tins of beer. Nothing so unusual about that, except that, from each arm, dangled a crutch that he was not using. He certainly didn’t have a slow, [...]
When we think of the destructiveness of war, it’s easy to forget the damage done beyond the body count and the injuries. But for the record, a recent new study from the World Health Organisation puts the death toll in the Iraqi conflict at 151,000. The report http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2008/pr02/en/index.html also makes note of the uncertainty in [...]
Pressure on the Government to build a dedicated cystic fibrosis (CF) unit with isolation rooms at St Vincent’s University Hospital is continuing to mount. Fine Gael Health Spokesperson, Dr James Reilly TD, has called delays in the creation of such a unit “scandalous”. “Irish CF sufferers die ten years younger than their counterparts in the [...]
The Irish Association of Emergency Medicine (IAEM) has welcomed what it calls an admission by the Health Service Executive (HSE) that its budget cuts have worsened overcrowding in the country’s emergency departments (EDs). IAEM secretary Mr James Binchy said it was “ridiculous” to argue- as Minister for Health and Children, Mary Harney did- that the [...]
A rapid-access service for patients suffering from transient ischaemic attacks (TIA) has been established at the Midland Regional Hospital, Mullingar. The service, which began late last year, is based at the hospital’s medical assessment unit and runs from 9am to 5pm, according to Medical Director of the Stroke Service, Dr Sean Murphy. The initiative is [...]
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