The average waiting time for patients presenting in UHG’s Emergency Department is seven and a half hours, according to the HSE – and those presenting at...
Galway’s Covid-19 death toll has passed the 300 milestone. The latest official mortality figures come as visitor restrictions remain in place at Galway’s public hospitals struggling...
Overcrowding at Galway’s two main public hospitals in 2022 was the worst year on record. The number of patients on trolleys, without a hospital bed, and...
It’s going to be a marathon Christmas for Irene Flynn, staff nurse at Portiuncula University Hospital in Ballinasloe. Because as well as working on Christmas Eve...
Galway’s public health services have become paralysed in the pandemic as Covid-19 continues to push local hospitals to the brink. Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe postponed surgeries...
There are now no Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds available for the most seriously ill patients across Galway’s two biggest hospitals – as the number of...
Nurses fear a winter of discontent in Galway’s two main public hospitals, which are bursting at the seams with patients being treated on trolleys. The overcrowding...
As Government applied the brakes on the planned full reopening of society this Friday, the West’s largest public hospital remained in a state of crisis –...
