Saolta Chief News Today

The mass vaccination centre at Galway Racecourse at Ballybrit is to be used to issue the winter flu vaccine to healthcare workers in the west.

Standard of infrastructure at UHG creating challenges with COVID-19 outbreaks in wards 25 January 2021 print Galway Bay fm newsroom – The Chief Clinical Director at the Saolta Hospital Group has raised concerns over the level of outbreaks in hospital wards at UHG due to the standard of infrastructure. At a COVID-19 briefing this afternoon, Professor Pat Nash told city councillors the infrastructure at ground and first floor levels of UHG has created challenges with outbreaks of the infection....

COVID-19 hospitalisation figures triple at UHG 7 January 2021 print Galway Bay fm newsroom – The rate of hospitalisation at UHG due to COVID-19 has more than tripled over the last nine days. There were 19 confirmed cases at UHG nine days ago, with the figure rising to 73 today. There are now close to 200 confirmed cases of the virus receiving care across the Saolta Hospital Group which stretches from Galway to Letterkenny. Latest figures show there are six confirmed cases of Covid-19 at Porti...