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Due to outbreaks of flu and Covid-19 in the hospital, Portiuncula University Hospital is appealing to the public not to visit the hospital if they are feeling unwell or have respiratory symptoms.

Due to outbreaks of Flu and COVID-19 in the hospital, Portiuncula University Hospital is appealing to the public not to visit the hospital if they are feeling unwell or have respiratory symptoms.

Portiuncula University Hospital (PUH) is asking the public to not visit patients at the hospital if they are feeling unwell due to the circulation of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) within the community for which the hospital is currently treating patients, including infants, who are very sick with the illness.

The HSE issued a covid alert for Mayo this week stating that there are currently 18 cases of patients in Mayo University Hospital with the virus - and warned that visitors to the facility pose a risk of infection to other patients there.

A Covid-19 outbreak coupled with high emergency department attendances is putting increased pressure on bed capacity at the west’s biggest hospital.

A figure of 212 different medicines needed by Irish patients are currently out of stock, an increase of 25 on last month as the country’s medicine supply chain and pricing challenges continue to impact healthcare on a daily basis, analysis published today has found.

According to new research, cost is the main barrier for people not attending their GP to get early lung cancer symptoms checked.

Latest figures show, according to the National Healthcare Quality Reporting System, that between 2019 and 2021, there were 809 hospital admissions of people from Westmeath due to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, or COPD.

Most people who get Covid-19 get better very quickly. Some people continue to experience symptoms, and even have other symptoms develop in the weeks and sometimes months following their infection. This is commonly referred to as long Covid. Some of the more common long Covid symptoms include a lasting cough, fatigue, aches and pains, brain fog, loss of taste, loss of sense of smell, and insomnia.