Search Results for 'Belmullet District Hospital'

A four-year-old boy was fatally injured in an accident on a farm in north Mayo on Wednesday night.

Minister of State for Tourism & Sport Michael Ring has welcomed the news that a new director of nursing has been appointed to Belmullet District Hospital.

A total of 77 public beds have been closed in community nursing homes (CNHs) and hospitals throughout Mayo in recent times, at the same time as health cutbacks and home help hours have been reduced.

Industrial action is scheduled to take place at Mayo General Hospital on Monday next (subject to ongoing negotiations) while a protest march is being organised for Sunday February 5 next in Ballina, in response to drastic new health service cuts set to affect hospitals in Mayo, as announced as part of the new HSE National Service Plan this week.

Community nursing homes in the county could face closure if the warnings given by the Minister for Health Dr James Reilly come to fruition. Dr Reilly remarked earlier this week at a Fine Gael and Labour parliamentary party that cuts in the forthcoming budget could results in the closure of 40 nursing homes, the closing of 1,000 hospital beds, and the hotly debated issue of a €50 medical card charge.

There are no plans to close the McBride Nursing Home in Westport according to HSE West executives this week.

News that up to 59 public nursing home beds are to be closed in Mayo has been met with “gross concern” and “dismay” by Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary.

A petition in support of Belmullet District Hospital, which has attracted almost 3,000 signatures, will be handed into Mr Frank Murray’s office at St Mary’s headquarters in Castlebar today (Friday).

A Dáil deputy has severely rapped the HSE for failing to meet a deputation to discuss the future of Belmullet District Hospital. The Fine Gael Spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Michael Ring, said he was “shocked” HSE management would not meet with a deputation, prior to a decision being made on the proposed closure of portion of the hospital.

Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony has said that the decision by the HSE to slash the health service budgets for 2010 in Mayo by €28m will impact on every single family in Mayo at some stage this year. Deputy O’Mahony was speaking in the aftermath of the news that the hospital and community services budgets have been dramatically slashed by the HSE.