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The Covid-19 vaccination centre at Galway Racecourse in Ballybrit is to serve as the sole centre for the west, following a large reduction in the numbers of people presenting at COVID-19 vaccinations centres nationally.

The Department of Public Health West is urging people not to eat or gift recalled Kinder products in the lead up to the Easter bank holiday weekend.

Tackling hospital overcrowding and growing in- and out-patient waiting lists - are top of the Saolta University Health Care Group's priorities for September.

Tackling hospital overcrowding and growing in and out-patient waiting lists are top of the Saolta University Health Care Group's priorities for September.

Local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten, has called for a definitive date for the full reopening of all day services following confirmation from the HSE that all older people and adults with underlying health conditions have been fully vaccinated

One month on from the cyber attack on HSE IT systems, the CEO of the Saolta Hospital Group has warned that patient services continue to feel the impact in Portiuncula and Roscommon University Hospitals.

The major disruption to local hospital services caused by the recent cyber attack on the HSE’s IT system is expected to continue for a number of weeks with thousands of patients facing cancelled appointments and delays.

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.

Local hospitals are under “extreme pressure” and it would not take a lot to “push them over the edge” the chief executive of the Saolta University Health Care Group warned this week.

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