PATIENTS are being urged to stay away from St Luke’s General Hospital unless in emergency cases as the second 24-hour nurses’ strike in a week gets underway this morning. The Health Services Executive (HSE) believes up to 50,000 people will be affected by today’s strike. This is effectively double the number that were directly impacted […]
PATIENT services at St Luke’s General Hospital will be severely curtailed again this week when striking nurses return to the picket line tomorrow and Thursday. And our ailing health services’ winter of discontent looks set to continue after the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) confirmed a major escalation in its dispute with the Government […]
Visitor to Kilkenny rushed to St Luke’s after he was brutally ‘glassed’ in random city-centre attack
A VISITOR to Kilkenny had to be rushed to St Luke’s General Hospital after he was brutally ‘glassed’ by a complete stranger for no apparent reason in the early hours of this morning. The shocking incident occurred at 3.04am in Rose Inn Street, gardai confirmed to KilkennyNow.ie. It is understood the 32-year-old victim, an Irish […]
KILKENNY patients have been urged to stay away from our hospitals except in the case of emergencies as the nationwide nurses’ strike impacts in services. Nurses took to the picket line outside St Luke’s General Hospital and Kilkcreene hospital from 8am this morning. Local members of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) brazed bitterly […]
OVERCROWDING figures at St Luke’s General Hospital rose significantly today as patients across the country braced themselves for tomorrow’s nurses’ strike. A total of 21 patients at St Luke’s were treated on trolleys at the hospital today, almost double the 11 recorded by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) less than a week ago […]
PATIENT services at St Luke’s General Hospital will be severely affected on Wednesday when the first of six planned 24-hour nurses’ strikes gets underway. The strike action now seems certain to go ahead following the breakdown of talks at the Workplace Relations Commission yesterday. The Health Services Executive (HSE) has warned of widespread closures and restrictions
A BRAIN-damaged baby girl who suffered failings in care when she was born at St Luke’s General Hospital died in her heartbroken mother’s arms two weeks later. The Health Services Executive (HSE) has unreservedly apologised to the parents of Ali Dowling Crowe, who received €200,000 as part of a settlement of a High Court action. […]
THE numbers of patients being treated on trolleys at St Luke’s General Hospital has dropped significantly over the past three days. Last Friday a total of 46 patients at our local hospital were forced to wait for a bed due to severe overcrowding. By this morning the number had dropped to just 14, according to latest […]
THE number of patients left languishing on trolleys at St Luke’s General Hospital has more than quadrupled in the space of just four days, KilkennyNow.ie can reveal. Latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) trolley ward watch reveal 46 patients at our local hospital were forced to wait for a bed today […]
A MAN is fighting for his life at St Luke’s General Hospital after he was struck by a truck outside a supermarket. The victim, who is in his mid-forties, is in a critical condition after he suffered severe head injuries in the horrific accident. The incident happened at 5pm yesterday in Carlow town centre, along […]