A man fighting for his life had to be treated on the side of the road in Connemara by his GP who had been given an...
The HSE is urging members of the public to avoid attending the Emergency Department at UHG today unless absolutely necessary. The so-called ‘Full Capacity Protocol’ has...
A team of inspectors from the Mental Health Commission began trawling through files at UHG’s psychiatric unit this week, following a series of high-profile crises which...
An 18-year-old girl who was rescued from the River Corrib following a suicide attempt, was then turned away from the Emergency Department at UHG. Dripping wet...
A psychiatric patient (30) was left in A&E, awaiting admission, for nearly four hours before he absconded and jumped into the canal, an inquiry into his...
Bacteria that is immune to most antibiotics has been found at two beaches in County Galway where raw sewage flows into the sea. Researchers discovered a...
Computer systems at University Hospital Galway (UHG) were infected with malware, management have confirmed. The ‘ransomware’ malware encrypts files on PCs and threatens to wipe them...
A mother of two carried her five-years-old sick child home from hospital to Salthill, because she couldn’t afford transport. The woman and children are asylum seekers...
