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The heart and stroke charity Croí has announced Kevin O’Reilly as its new chairman.

More than 50 heart attack patients have been transferred by helicopter to Galway University Hospitals (GUH) in the past six months.

Concerns over the ability to have a healthy sex life after tackling heart disease will be one of the topics to be discussed next week when local heart and stroke charity Croí will host a series of free public talks, seminars, workshops and ‘walk-in risk factor screening and assessments.

Croi has come a long way since it had that funding barometer sign outside the hospital, where passers-by could see just how much money it had to raise in order to give West of Ireland people a fair shot at surviving heart disease. Prior to Croi, if you had a dodgy ticker, you had to get on bone-rattling buses and cross the country in order to have your lifesaving surgery. Your chances of survival were reduced if you lived in the west. Back then too, the trauma of open heart surgery was so much more than it is today. Now, thanks to great leaps in technological advancement, bypasses and other invasive heart surgeries are becoming common and incredibly more lifesaving.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum is demanding that consultants at Galway University Hospitals [UHG and Merlin Park] who fail to sign off private health insurance claims promptly are “named and shamed”.

The chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum has called on the medical board of Galway University Hospitals (GUH) to address the issue of consultants who are costing the hospitals millions of euro by failing to sign off private health insurance claims promptly.

Local heart charity Croi has scooped a major award for its pioneering work in the prevention of heart disease, stroke and diabetes.

Work will begin immediately on a €3 million education, research and care centre for heart patients, their families and the general community in the west.

•Galway Golf Club: Men’s Tuesday raceweek competition 18 holes single stableford, Sean McMahon (18, Dromoland) 37; Dara Coyne (14) 35; Gross, Damien Coyne (1) 34; Kieran Daly (9) 35; Sean O’Donoghue (6,Portarlington) 35; Stephan Delaney (13) 35; Oliver McDonagh (3)(Tuam)35. Ladies’ Brown Thomas Cup 18 Hole Stroke, Carolyn Foster (27) 61; Imelda Brennan (19)72; Gross, Sheelagh Kearney (10) 84; Raymonde Standun (21) 73; Class A, Patricia Comer (16) 74; Ronnie Keenan (16) 74; Josephine McCann (18)75; Class B, Bridie Kenny (24) 74; Marilyn Kelly (26)75; Olive Breen (20) 81; Class C, Yvonne Gibbs (30)79; Valerie Egan (36) 82; Terese Mongan (32) 84.