The HSE’s Spring booster vaccination programme gets underway on Monday, April 22 with the roll out of the free COVID-19 vaccine to recommended groups.
The following...
Portiuncula Hospital has issued updated visitation rules amid multiple viral outbreaks this winter.
Due to outbreaks of Flu and COVID-19 in the hospital, Portiuncula University...
The HSE is seeing an increase in people with respiratory illnesses attending emergency departments.
This week, 538 people with flu and 282 with Covid attended...
Galway TD Denis Naughten has expressed his disappointment at people with Long Covid being denied the occupational injury support they "rightfully deserve".
The Department of...
A Covid-19 outbreak is affecting multiple wards at University Hospital Galway with 31 patients currently with the virus in the hospital.
As of this morning...
University Hospital Galway is currently under extreme pressure from a COVID-19 outbreak and very high attendance at the Emergency Department.
The COVID-19 outbreak is affecting...
Local Independent TD Denis Naughten has said that long Covid has the potential to place a significant burden on our healthcare services.
He said that...
The HSE is starting its Spring COVID-19 booster vaccine programme for people for older and vulnerable people.
Following the most recent NIAC (National Immunisation Advisory...
Roscommon-Galway TD Denis Naughten has once again called for long Covid to be recognised as an occupational illness for frontline workers, allowing them to...
The Covid-19 pandemic was initially a health crisis before it rapidly transformed into an economic crisis, affecting all businesses. Most governments imposed curfews, lockdowns,...
A pop-up COVID-19 vaccination clinic will be open in Carraroe next week for people to get their booster shot.
The walk-in vaccination clinic will be...
A patient support programme from the Long COVID and post-COVID clinics in Galway University Hospitals has won a national healthcare award.
The programme won the...
Just one third of the staff needed to manage patients with long Covid have been recruited to specialist clinics, Deputy Denis Naughten has said.
The...
University Hospital Galway remains under pressure from a high number of COVID patients, but the number admitted to the ICU has fallen.
There were 47...
