SEXUAL ASSAULT TREATMENT UNIT TO OPEN IN CITY IN MAY

Date Published: 25-Mar-2009

A dedicated sexual assault treatment unit is to open in Galway in May.

It was confirmed at a meeting of the Regional Health Forum West yesterday that the unit will open at Parkmore in the city on the 25th of May.

A nurse has taken up position since March 2nd and expressions of interest from nurses and doctors to participate in on call arrangements for the new unit have been advertised.

Member of the Health Forum, Councillor Catherine Connolly has been lobbying for such a unit to be set up in Galway for some time.

The parkmore unit will be a temporary premises until a permanent unit is set up at Merlin Park hospital.