A TEENAGE girl had to be treated in Letterkenny University Hospital for injuries sustained in an attack. The 17-year-old was walking with a friend in the laneway between the car park at Main Street, known locally as McElhinneys car park and Chestnut Road in Ballybofey, on Tuesday, June 13, at 7pm, when she was approached by a group of […]
Over 30 patients on trolleys at LUH
OVER 30 patients are currently on trolleys at Letterkenny University Hospital. According to the INMO, 31 patients are on trolleys waiting on a bed at LUH – 12 patients are in the emergency department, while 19 patients are on trolleys elsewhere. Nationally, 444 admitted patients are waiting for beds this morning, according to today’s INMO […]
Churchill woman urges more to give blood after receiving life-saving transfusions
BY DIONNE MEEHAN CHURCHILL woman Mary Bradley is urging more people to consider giving blood after she received more than 100 life-saving transfusions last year. At the end of 2021 Mary (51) began suffering with intense abdominal pains. Advertisement Following a visit to her doctor she was referred for a number of colonoscopies. Failing to […]
Major progress for Laura after groundbreaking obesity surgery
THREE years ago during the Covid-19 pandemic Laura Pettit began a life-changing journey. Having battled obesity all her life, Laura was the first patient in the country to undergo groundbreaking surgery in Letterkenny University Hospital in August 2020. The Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass conversion to Duodenal Switch was carried out under the expert care of […]
People urged to use other care options before presenting at Emergency Department
OVER the June Bank Holiday weekend, Health Officials in the North West are asking people to consider all care options before presenting at Emergency Departments. Health Services are advising the public that there will be large numbers attending Emergency Departments this weekend and they will be prioritising those in need of urgent and emergency care. […]
Gardaí appealing for witnesses to collision involving a car and motorcycle
GARDAÍ are appealing for witnesses to a road traffic collision that occurred at Galdonagh, Manorcunningham yesterday evening shortly before 5.15pm. The collision involved a car and a motorcycle. The motorcyclist was removed from the scene by ambulance to be taken to Letterkenny University Hospital where he remains to receive treatment for injuries sustained. Advertisement The […]
UPDATE: Post-mortem due to take place today on man killed in workplace explosion
GARDAÍ continue to investigate all the circumstances surrounding an explosion in Brinlack, near Bunbeg, that occurred yesterday afternoon. Stephen Montgomery (43) from Dunfanaghy was fatally injured during the incident. It is believed he was operating machinery while breaking rock at a site at Bloody Foreland in Gaoth Dobhair. Advertisement His body has been removed from […]
Overseas recruitment campaign continues to tackle nurse shortages at hospital
by Kate Heaney A DISCREPANCY regarding the number of nurses short at Letterkenny University Hospital was raised at this week’s meeting of the Regional Health Forum by its Chairman Cllr Gerry McMonagle. While Saolta were suggesting there were 23 vacancies in nursing between the Emergency Department and Surgical, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) claimed […]
Sudden resignations by doctors in Letterkenny University Hospital rocks the local diabetes community
THE Donegal Branch of Diabetes Ireland has claimed that two Consultant Endocrinologists for adult diabetes services in Letterkenny University Hospital have resigned. The group say they were shocked today to receive confirmation via SAOLTA, from LUH CEO Sean Murphy to Councillor Gerry McMonagle of the recent resignations of the Consultant Endocrinologists for adult diabetes services in […]
‘I never got to say goodbye’ – Letterkenny woman was in ICU when her husband died
By Diarmaid Doherty MAUREEN Shiels doesn’t remember the day her husband Hugo died in Letterkenny University Hospital. She never got to say goodbye. Advertisement As her husband of 54 years spent his final hours in this world lying in a hospital ward, Maureen was in a coma in the same hospital’s ICU department. She was […]