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The HSE Winter vaccination programme is underway in the West and North West this week with the roll out of the free flu and COVID-19 vaccines to recommended groups.

An emergency rally in solidarity with the people of Palestine will take place in Galway city centre on Saturday, July 27, from 2.45pm.

Irish Hospice Foundation’s Time to Reflect Survey has found that the Covid-19 pandemic had a profound impact on people’s experience of death, dying and grieving.

The HSE is seeing an increase in people with respiratory illnesses attending emergency departments - 538 people with flu and 282 with COVID attended its EDs this week, an increase from 312 (flu) and 144 (COVID) the previous week. While our system is responding well, this increasing pressure requires all to play their part in using the right options for care.

The Department of Public Health, HSE Dublin & Midlands and Midlands Hospital at Tullamore and Portlaoise Hospitals have come together to support healthcare workers to protect themselves and the public from Covid-19 and influenza this winter.

Local Sinn Féin Deputy, Sorca Clarke, has said that the Government’s decision to underfund the health service this year is putting patients’ lives at risk.

Sinn Féin TD Mairead Farrell has expressed alarm at how the severe escalation in the HSE’s recruitment embargo will impact patients in Galway, ansd that this is a direct consequence of the Government’s disastrous decision to deliberately underfund the health service in 2024.

The Saolta University Health Care Group, which incorporates Portiuncula Hospital Ballinasloe, recently launched an in-depth look back report on the rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination programme.

Operation Walk was originally founded in 1996 by Dr. Larry Dorr –Los Angeles and was later established internationally by Mr. Derek Bennet consultant orthopaedic surgeon Galway Clinic when he set up the charity “ Operation Walk Ireland” in 2016.

Mayo Sinn Féin TD, Rose Conway-Walsh has outlined Sinn Féin’s multi-year plan to fix the health service, which would start with a Year 1 investment of €1.5 billion in capacity, workforce training, and cutting the cost of healthcare.