Galway Bay FM News Archives
HSE WEST ADMITS TO 9 MONTH BCG VACCINE SHORTAGE
Date Published: 26-Jun-2008
The HSE West has admitted it had no supplies of the BCG vaccine for most of the past school year.
Supplies of the Tuberculosis vaccine suddenly stopped last September due to a problem with the manufacturing plant in Denmark.
BCG supplies only became available in May, leaving the HSE West with only one month to get all 6th class pupils vaccinated against TB before the summer holidays.
The HSE has confirmed it’s now made plans to have any schoolchildren who have not yet been immunised vaccinated over the summer.
Pupils will be called to a clinic held at a location most suitable to the families involved.
However, Senator Fidelma Healy Eames says 6th class students at LisheenKyle National School have not been given the BCG vaccination for the past THREE years.
The Fine Gael Senator is concerned that this is happening in other schools across Galway as well.
Date Published: 07-May-2013
Tuam has secured it’s second import of hay from the UK this afternoon in a bid to address the ongoing fodder crisis in the west.
A load of between 40 and 50 bales arrived at the Connacht Gold store in Airglooney for distribution throughout the county.
It follows a similar load last Thursday to the Tuam outlet.
The co-op also took a load of imported hay to the mart in Maam Cross over the weekend, however most of the bales had already been pre-assigned to farmers.
Further loads of hay are expected to arrive across the west and north west tonight and tomorrow morning.
Date Published: 09-May-2013
281 offers of social housing were made by the city and county councils last year.
Figures provided by the local authorities show that 46 of these were refused.
Galway city council made 193 such offers in 2012 with 41 of these refused.
The majority didn’t like the area they were offered or disliked the property itself.
Galway county council made 88 offers of social housing last year with 83 of these accepted.
Reasons given for refusing five properties focused on the location or that the property itself did not meet their needs.
Date Published: 13-May-2013
Galway Senator Trevor O’ Clochartaigh has called on the government to provide more support for victims of domestic violence.
Figures provided to the Sinn Fein Senator show that domestic violence support group COPE accompanied over 80 women to court in Galway last year, but a further 214 women were unable to avail of such assistance.
Senator O Clochartaigh told Galway Bay fm news that more needs to be done to support victims of domestic violence.
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