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The Run Kilkenny For Susie Long marathon event which took place over the June bank holiday this year raised a total of €13,441 for the Susie Long Hospice Fund.

St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny has not yet improved on its record for tackling the waiting list for colonoscopies following a litany of promises from hospital chiefs, HSE executives, and politicians.

Plans for the long awaited upgrade of several departments in St Luke’s General Hospital were revealed earlier this week at a media briefing at the Education Centre at the hospital. The new development is expected to get underway in September of this year.

I hate to be cynical. But one might not blame me for being a little bit unconvinced about the recent announcement that St Luke’s is to finally get the upgrade that it has been waiting for, for the past decade.

Kilkenny’s St Luke’s Hospital was delivered some positive news this week when it was confirmed that some €13m funding is to be made available in order to enable a number of priority capital developments at the hospital.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation is holding its annual conference in Kilkenny this week and today (Friday) they will welcome the new Minister for Health Dr James O’Reilly to speak at the event.

It is still unclear as to whether or not the dedicated colonoscopy service, which had been planned for St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny will be included in the 2012 annual review of the Capital Plan.

It is clear that the Government has not acknowledged the legacy of Susie Long from Kilkenny who died from colon cancer three years ago, as recent figures report that there are still 1,854 people waiting three months or more for colonoscopy examinations.

In January 2007, a young mother from Kilkenny known only as ‘Rosie’ revealed on the national airwaves that she had been handed a death sentence by the Irish healthcare system.