The death has taken place on Saturday 19th December 2020 at Sligo University Hospital of Kathleen Hegarty, Lettermakenny, Stranorlar.
Funeral from her late residence on Wednesday 23rd December 2020 at 10.00am going to St. Mary’s Church, Convoy for 11am Funeral Mass.
Interment afterwards in the adjoining cemetery.
Family flowers only please. In compliance with current Government and HSE guidelines, the Wake, Funeral and Interment will be strictly private to family only please.
MUH has the second highest number of patients on trolleys in the country today Published: Friday, 18 December 2020 11:29
225 admitted patients are waiting for beds at hospitals across the country today, according to the INMO Trolley Watch figures.
195 patients are waiting in emergency departments, while 30 are in wards elsewhere in the hospital system.
There are 28 in total waiting for beds at Mayo University Hospital,17 of those are in the emergency department.
It is the second highest total in the country after University Hospital Limerick at 55.
Elsewhere across the region there are 18 waiting for beds at Sligo University Hospital, 15 at University Hospital Galway and 1 at the Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe.
Third highest number of patients nationally waiting on trolleys today at MUH Published: Thursday, 17 December 2020 12:21
There are 24 patients on trolleys waiting for a bed at Mayo University Hospital today. That’s according to the INMO trolley watch figures.
It has been an extremely busy week at the Emergency Dept of the Castlebar hospital with trolley numbers in excess of twenty each day, rising to 36 on Tuesday last.
Today’s figures are the third highest nationally.
Across the country there are 220 patients waiting on trolleys.
There are 17 patients on trolleys waiting for admission to Sligo University Hospital today and 15 patients on trolleys today at University Hospital Galway.
Pressure on beds at GUH today as the hospital is very busy Published: Wednesday, 16 December 2020 15:14
University Hospital Galway is extremely busy today, resulting in pressure on bed availability in the hospital.
The Saolta Hospital group says it regrets that patients are currently experiencing long waiting times to be admitted from the Emergency Department to an acute bed in the hospital.
They have a high number of patients waiting for admission on trolleys in the ED and in both the Acute Medical Unit and Acute Surgical Unit, and apologise saying “we know these delays are very difficult for our patients and their families”.
The hospital death rate for the most common form for stroke has risen for the first time in a decade.
The worrying turnaround in mortality for patients suffering ischaemic stroke (caused by a restriction in blood supply to the brain) shows an increases from 76 deaths per 1,000 admitted patients in 2018 to 80 per 1,000 last year.
The death rate for haemorrhagic stroke (caused by bleeding on the brain) has not fallen significantly, although it is down from 264 per 1,000 admissions in 2010 to 241 per 1,000 last year.
Commenting on the rise in ischaemic stroke deaths rates, Professor Joe Harbison, former national clinical lead for stroke, said: “We are still deficient in number and quality of acute stroke unit beds compared with comparable countries so there is potential further improvement in care.”