Council offices in Derry lit up blue and green as part of Action for Brain Injury Week
Local authority supporting awareness campaign
Derry City and Strabane District Council s headquarters at Strand Road.
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Derry City and Strabane District Council offices on Strand Road will be lit up blue and green throughout this week as part of Action for Brain Injury Week.
Mayor Brian Tierney has facilitated the lighting up to help raise awareness of acquired brain injuries.
He said: I was shocked to learn that despite thousands of hospital admissions each year for acquired brain injuries, there are many people who are unaware of these injuries and the severity of them.
Council meeting told that seven Covid patients being treated today at Altnagelvin Hospital in Derry
One of those patients in the intensive care unit of local hospital
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One of those patients is being treated in the hospital s intensive care unit.
The figures emerged when representatives from the Western Trust addressed a meeting this afternoon of Derry City and Strabane District Council s Health and Community Committee.
Speaking to local councillors, Neil Guckian, the Trust s Director Finance and Contracting, who will take over as chief executive of the local health body in July, said that to date 218 people have died from Covid during the pandemic in acute hospitals within the Western Trust area.