Beds Re-Open At Mid Western Regional Hospital Dooradoyle

The number of people waiting on trolleys at the Mid Western in Limerick should be greatly reduced, following an agreement with the HSE to re-open 27 beds.

With the closure of Nenagh Hospital, the Mid Western Regional Hospital in Limerick now serves residents of North Tipperary.

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation have successfully secured the re-opening of these beds in Wards 4C and 2B, following a two day meeting with HSE management.

Latest figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) show that there are 22 people currently waiting on Hospital trolley’s at the Mid Western Regional in Dooradoyle.

The re-opened wards had been reduced to operating only 5 days a week due to funding cuts. The decision to open again came only hours before nursing staff at the hospital were to implement a strict work-to-rule.

Mary Fogarty, Industrial Relations Officer with the INMO, stated that the re-opening of these beds will now allow greater ease in terms of managing patients, and ensuring safer practises with regard to disease control, while possibly also ensuring that those attending the hospital will actually get a bed.
It is understood that these beds will now open, as from Monday next.

Borrisoleigh’s Welfare Officer To Be Reinstated

Borrisoleigh‘s Community Welfare Officer (CWO) will be reinstated from Templemore to Borrisoleigh in the very near future and suitable accommodation is now being finalised for this move.
North Tipperary Fine Gael TD Noel Coonan has constantly questioned Health Minister Mary Harney on this issue ever since the Borrisoleigh CWO was removed from the area in 2008, when the HSE deemed the accommodation unsatisfactory from a health and safety prospective. No other HSE premises was available at the time and almost 170 people from Borrisoleigh then signed a petition calling for the officer to be immediatly reinstated.

Fine Gael’s Deputy Agriculture Spokesperson Coonan confirmed this statement this morning stating:
“For the last two years I have been calling on the Health Minister to address this issue as a matter of priority. The moving of the CWO to Templemore was a regrettable inconvenience for people who could not drive or who relied on a public transport service to Borrisoleigh, latter which is non-existent. I’m disappointed that the Government discommoded so many people for so long in Borrisoleigh and I will continue to lobby the Minister until this issue is fully resolved. Unfortunately the HSE, in response to my parliamentary question, failed to outline a definite date for the return of the officer, who currently offers a clinic twice weekly and whose service is invaluable in these financially strained times.”

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Carer Of The Year 2010 Anne McGrath Thurles Co Tipperary

Anne McGrath and daughter Tamara. Photograph: Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times.

Congratulations to this years winner of the 2010 Irish Carer of the Year award, Anne McGrath from Mullinahone, Thurles, Co Tipperary, pictured here with her daughter Tamara aged 10.

Tamara suffers from Canavans disease, a rare genetic neurological disorder, that leaves children severely mentally and physically incapacitated.

This prestigious annual award was presented to Anne at the annual Carers Association Awards ceremony in Dublin yesterday.

Anne, who has three other children and has lost two children to this disease, David aged 1 and Tamara’s twin brother Mark aged 6, stated that Tamara was the very light of her life and a wonderful lovely placid girl.

She said caring for Tamara is a day long duty, beginning at 7am, but that she simply has to get on with life.

She stated “When I lost David I was devastated and thought it would never happen again, when we lost Mark I wanted to lock myself away. When I miss Mark, I just hug Tamara, she’s part of him as a twin and a very very special little girl.”

From all the people of Tipperary go our heartiest congratulations to Anne, her husband James and family, on their truly well deserved public recognition.

Adi Roche To Receive World of Children Award

Adi Roche

Tipperary human rights campaigner and Chernobyl Children International founder, Adi Roche, will receive the World of Children‘s 2010 Health Award, at a ceremony tomorrow at UNICEF House in New York City.

The award which is hailed Internationally as the “Nobel Prize for Children” is an annual honor, that includes a cash grant of up to $50,000 (€36,000) for the honorees own charitable program. Adi plans to use this award to fund life saving cardiac operations on children in the Ukraine and Belarus and to further the training and development of local surgeons, ensuring that ‘Chernobyl Children International’ can continue to save lives into the future..

Adi Roche, chief executive of Chernobyl Children Project International (CCPI), has scooped the prize for her continued efforts to improve the lives of children living in the shadow of the world’s worst nuclear disaster area.

Adi started working in Chernobyl in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster in 1991, and has delivered over €85 million worth of aid and has brought more than 20,000 children into Ireland for life enhancing rest and recuperation.

World of Children Awards co-chairman Harry Leibowitz said they are proud to support exemplary individuals such as Adi Roche, who had improved the lives of so many children. Since 1998, the ‘World of Children Awards’ has shared more than $4 million (€2.8m) in grants with 84 individuals working in more than 50 countries.

Born in Clonmel, County Tipperary, Adi now lives in Co. Cork with her husband Seán Dunne.

For her work with CCPI, Adi has been honoured by numerous awards: the Medal of Francysk Skaryna , the European Woman Laureate Award, Irish Person of the Year and the European Person of the Year awards. She was the keynote speaker at the United Nations General Session, latter commemorating the 18th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and was appointed to represent NGOs on the Steering Committee of the UN’s International Chernobyl Research and Information Network (ICRIN).

Adi and the work of CCPI were featured in the 2003 Academy Award winning film “Chernobyl Heart”. She has also written the book “Chernobyl Heart, 20 Years on.”

Ms Roche has, in the past, stood for the office of President of Ireland as a coalition candidate for the Labour Party, Democratic Left and the Green Party in the 1997 Irish presidential election.