Green has worked in several North American hospitals, as well as other Irish hospitals, âand there is nowhere more efficient in terms of management and nursing care than Temple Street,â he stresses. âIt is purely an infrastructural issue. We are working in a Victorian hospital and we are trying to offer this high-level care. Those children, if with me or Prof McCormick, will not have their operation within the next 18 months to two years. That is absolutely unacceptable. Every single child on our waiting list requires surgery immediately.
âStart deterioratingâ
âThese are the group for whom it should be happening within four months. The problem with these children is that when we list them for surgery, they immediately start deteriorating and some children we reach a point where they are so sick from their underlying condition and their scoliosis, that surgery is too risky.â
Almost 30,000 patients removed from outpatient waiting lists in 2020 validation
Validation of outpatient waiting lists paused during 2020 back up and running
Almost 30,000 patients were removed from the national outpatient waiting list as a result of validation carried out during the year.
Between January 1 and the end of December 2020, the latest figures show a total of 29,479 patients were removed from the outpatient waiting list as a result of validation.
The National Centralised Validation Unit within the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF), advised the Department of Health that the validation of the waiting list process, suspended at the end of March 2020 due to Covid-19, recommenced six months ago at the beginning of August.
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A number of hospitals in the south of the country have received and administered a disproportionately large number of Covid-19 vaccines, relative to their size.
The Irish Times reports that more than one-third of doses given up to last Tuesday were administered in hospitals run by the South/Southwest Hospital Group in Waterford, Cork and Kerry.
This is despite the group being only the third biggest of the seven hospital groups, by number of employees.
Figures obtained from the HSE show that the group had administered 19,840 vaccine doses by last Tuesday, and 22,000 by last Friday.
Young Wexford respiratory consultant dies suddenly
The son of a former Trinidad and Tobago Chief Justice was only 39 years old
Tributes have been paid to a young respiratory consultant who died suddenly.
Dr Keshav Sharma was 39 years of age when he passed away last week (January 11), three days after his birthday.
He was a consultant respiratory and general medical physician at Wexford General Hospital (WGH).
A spokesperson for the Ireland East Hospital Group has confirmed to
Irish Medical Times that the death was not related to Covid-19.
“All the staff and management in Wexford General Hospital were profoundly sad to learn of the sudden passing of Dr Keshav Sharma this week,” the spokesperson added.