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The new chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is calling for the return of hospital matrons to help in the fight against hospital acquired infections.

About 12 per cent of patients are referred “inappropriately” to the HSE West’s public hospitals, according to a bed utilisation study carried out this year.

There was deep and profound sadness in the Claregalway area as the news spread on Friday morning of the untimely passing of Claregalway Parish Priest, Very Reverend Noel Canon Mullin. A humble man, he was Fr Noel to everyone.

The “hazardous junction” near the Merlin Park Hospital and retail area is causing motorists to take risks and putting lives at danger and something needs to be done about it before there is “loss of life”.

Motorists using Merlin Lane to cut through the grounds of Merlin Park Hospital to get access onto the main Dublin Road is “totally unacceptable” and a danger to staff and local residents.

The Galway City Council started 2009 on a high note with the announcement this week that Galway has been voted Ireland’s cleanest city in the latest Irish Business Against Litter League results.

City Mayor and HSE regional health forum member Cllr Padraig Conneely says he fears the delay in implementing protocols for the discharge of people with disabilities from hospital may result in further loss of life.

A Connemara man was ordered to refrain from making any further nuisance phone calls or sending menacing messages after nine complaints from health care workers were brought against him.

A sexual assault treatment unit will open in the city within the next few weeks. The facility will initially be based in a temporary premises which is understood to be on the west side of the city close to University Hospital Galway. It will eventually be located in a permanent premises to be built on the Merlin Park Hospital campus.

A new MRI scanner which allows faster imaging and is spacious, therefore easily accommodating bigger built patients or people who tend to be claustrophic, is now available at Merlin Park Imaging Centre.