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The escalating number of Covid-19 patients in intensive care units (ICUs), combined with high levels of staff absenteeism due to the virus, is putting severe pressure on local hospitals.

With the present Covid-19 Level 5 restrictions confirmed for extension until Friday, March 5, most recently updated figures published by the Health Surveillance Protection Centre (HSPC) and HSE (from 05/01-18/01) reveal that three local electoral areas within the region boast the lowest Covid-19 rates per population in the country.

The local acute hospital system remains under "severe pressure", the like of which it has never experienced before, Tony Canavan, the chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs the seven public hospitals in the west and north-west of the country, said this week. There are more people hospitalised now with Covid-19 than at any other time during the pandemic.

The local acute hospital system remains under “severe pressure”, the like of which it has never experienced before, the chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group, which runs the seven public hospitals in the west and north-west of the country, said this week.

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As the country's acute hospital system comes under extreme pressure from rising Covid-19 numbers, the head of the local hospital group fears that the worst has yet to come.

The new modular Acute Covid Assessment Unit (ACAU) at Mayo University Hospital is operational from yesterday, Thursday 17 December.

Senator Aisling Dolan has called on the Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, to launch, with immediate effect, a media campaign to increase up-take of the flu vaccine among children in the next few weeks.

Based on the official retirement age of 72 years, twenty four GMS GPs are due to retire in the next decade (2021 to 2030) in Co. Galway, four of which refer to the East Galway LE Area.

GPs in County Galway who charge Medical Card holders an additional fee for blood pressure monitoring and blood tests are in breach of their contracts for doing this, the Regional Health Forum was told this week.