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Professor Pat Nash, Saolta Group chief clinical director, told a briefing before Monday’s Galway City Council meeting that the pandemic has underlined ‘the need for better infrastructure’ in UHG.

Aoife Ni Eochaidh, chartered physiotherapist, provides face to face, phone, and video call physiotherapy for pelvic floor muscle treatment for bladder and bowel incontinence from her clinic in Suite 14, Bon Secours Consultant Clinic in Renmore. She also treats sexual dysfunction, prolapse, post-natal pelvic conditions, and osteoporosis. People can choose to have their pelvic physiotherapy consultation by regular phone call, Zoom, WhatsApp, etc, or to attend in person. Patients can get a referral from their GP or self-refer.

Acupuncture, which originated in China, has been scientifically proven to be very effective to relieve most types of pain and is now used in hospitals and specialised pain clinics in Europe, the USA, and Australia.

A Galway-based solicitor is calling on the Government to intervene and make provision so that Galway University Hospital immediately becomes Ireland’s centre for Covid using hyperbaric oxygenation.

The Government's decision to begin a medicinal cannabis access programme later this year is "very welcome news", but "important questions" still need to be answered.

The Government’s mental health policy, enshrined in Sharing the Vision, foresees an Ireland where early intervention is guaranteed and those who experience mental health difficulties are provided with community-based services which cater to their individual needs.

The "sacrifices of healthcare workers" during Covid-19 must be "acknowledged and rewarded" by the Government in the form of a voucher or gift.

Local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten, has questioned the Minister for Health on the capacity of Portiuncula Hospital to deal with the surge in patients as a result of Covid-19.

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.