The Government has designated the Mater hospital in Dublin and Cork University Hospital as the two major centres for the provision of trauma care in the State.
The Cabinet also decided that St Vincentâs University Hospital and Tallaght University Hospital in Dublin will serve as trauma centres for patients with less serious conditions.
Overall, the plan will see the country divided into two trauma networks for dealing with patients who, for example, have experienced car accidents, head injuries or broken limbs.
Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly said the major trauma centres would provide all major relevant specialist services, leading to better outcomes for severely injured patients.
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Nikki Bradley feels it’s important to have conversations on the impact cancer treatment can have on people
At the time, this wasn’t a huge blow, she reflects. “I was only 19, kids weren’t on my radar at all; I was so keen to just get back to normal.” In 2006, sitting at her kitchen table studying for her Leaving Certificate mocks, she felt a twinge in her hip. As the day went on the pain increased. Nikki ended up in hospital that evening on morphine. Three weeks in bed followed, with Nikki virtually unable to move.
“I can’t fully describe how bad the pain was,” she says. She spent 10 weeks in St Vincent’s where doctors investigated the source of her pain. Nikki had been left with lymphedema and scar tissue after her cancer treatment, which somewhat blocked scans. An infection was suspected. She was sent home and had to wait another year before receiving her hip replacement in the summer of 2007. The bone had essentially started to crumble due to the treatment, and
Nikki Bradley was just 16 in December 2002, and still a schoolgirl in Letterkenny, when she was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma. A rare form of cancer that occurs in the bones or soft tissue around the bones, it is mostly discovered in children and teenagers.
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