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The Department of Health has approved the Strategic Assessment Report (SAR) for the delivery of a new Emergency Department and Women’s and Children’s Department at University Hospital Galway, according to Senator Seán Kyne.

Dozens of voluntary and community providers in Galway will benefit from a special fund of nearly €5million from the Department of Health.

Local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten has requested that the Taoiseach intervene as a matter of urgency to ensure plans for a new emergency department as well as additional bed capacity at Portiuncula University Hospital proceed without further delay.

There will be Government presence in Athlone on Friday morning (December 9) when Minister of State for Public Health, Wellbeing and National Drugs Strategy, Deputy Frank Feighan, visits St Kieran’s Community Centre in Tormey Villas to launch Sláintecare Healthy Communities Westmeath.

Local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten, has sought Dáil support to designate long Covid-19 as an occupational illness for frontline workers who contracted the virus due to their employment.

Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, has launched a public consultation on a draft national policy framework for open disclosure in the Irish health and social care sector.

Physical activity levels in children and teenagers across Ireland and Northern Ireland have improved slightly over the past eight years but not all children and teens have an equal chance to be active, a new Active Healthy Kids Report Card, involving the Technological University of the Shannon, has found.

Tuberculosis is an infectious and very debilitating disease that affects the lungs. It was previously known as consumption because of weight loss suffered.

Parents recall having to cut wires from their children’s mouths with pliers following the cessation of treatment by Oranmore-based Specialist Orthodontist, Dr Anne Hahessy.

The VAT on defibrillators is a “tax on saving lives” and must be scrapped, the Irish Heart Foundation insisted in its pre-Budget submission this week.