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A former vice-chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum insisted this week that there is “an absolute necessity” to hold an independent inquiry into the death of Savita Halappanavar, the 31-year-old dentist who died at UHG following a miscarriage last month.

In a year which has seen the sale of houses being sold by public auction increase threefold, O’Donnellan & Joyce will complete the year with a final auction when it places 11 properties under the hammer next month.

An outpatient waiting list for orthopaedic procedures at Galway University Hospitals has been reduced by 55 weeks since a new musculoskeletal clinic was set up at Merlin Park Hospital.

O’Donnellan & Joyce auctioneers has just brought No 41 Caiseal Cam, Roscam, to the market. Caiseal Cam is a beautiful family residential estate, built by premier builders O’Malley Construction in the mid 2000s.

Sherry FitzGerald Kavanagh is offering a rare opportunity to acquire a substantial detached residential property on a large mature site just off the eastern entrance to the city. The house is a split level bungalow with large, bright, spacious accommodation and will require modernisation. It stands on a site of approximately 0.6 acre with established trees, shrub beds, and boundaries. The property is entered via a tree-lined driveway leading to a parking area to the front and side and a detached garage.

One of two operating theatres and up to to 13 beds at Merlin Park Hospital’s orthopaedic department would have closed if additional nursing staff had not been appointed to the facility on the east side of the city, it was claimed this week.

A relaxation of the smoking ban in the grounds of Merlin Park Hospital in Galway has been agreed by members of HSE West following a call by chairman, Fine Gael Councillor Padraic Conneely, for more flexibility on the issue. At its May meeting this week councillors agreed that a designated area should be set aside for smokers, in place of the current protocol that obliges people to walk up to half a mile to a blue line at the hospital entrance.

Public eye clinics which were cancelled last month at University Hospital Galway due to a nursing shortage are to resume.

The HSE West regional director of operations has revealed that reductions in home help hours for the elderly will mean that taking care of patients’ social needs will be dropped altogether in order to concentrate on providing clinical patient care only.

Absenteeism in the public sector is viewed by a minority as an ‘entitlement’ and used by some to take a holiday from work, according to the chairman of HSE West, Cllr Padraig Conneely.