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St Luke’s General Hospital in Kilkenny has launched a recruitment drive for a new volunteer service to assist and support members of the public when visiting the hospital.

The Minister for Health was welcomed to Kilkenny for a happy occasion last week when he visited the new state-of-the-art Primary Care Centre and Medical Park at Ayrfield on Friday.

Mayo General Hospital is requesting that visitors do not to attend at the hospital due to the presence of suspected norovirus (winter vomiting bug) in three wards in the hospital.

Mayo General Hospital has launched a recruitment drive for a new volunteer service to assist and support members of the public when visiting the hospital. The hospital is now looking for volunteers to take part in the pilot project and would welcome volunteers from all sections of the community aged 18 years and over (there is no upper age limit). Training and support will be provided to all volunteers.

Gardai are investigating the cause of a horrific car accident in Kilkenny on Wednesday evening, which left two people dead and three others in hospital with serious injuries.

Carlow/Kilkenny Home Care Team are appealing to the people of Carlow and Kilkenny to support their local home care team service on Ireland’s biggest coffee morning, which takes place on September 15.

Plans for the long awaited upgrade of several departments in St Luke’s General Hospital were revealed earlier this week at a media briefing at the Education Centre at the hospital. The new development is expected to get underway in September of this year.

A local KIlkenny nurse was honoured by her colleagues and friends recently at an event which recognises excellence in nursing.

Two operating theatres may close in the county’s hospital during July and August due to an overspend in the hospital’s budget, the Mayo Advertiser had learned.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has slammed University Hospital Galway’s poor rating in the HSE’s latest league tables as “embarrassing”.