Court told patient fell in ward late at night and suffered thighbone fracture. He had surgery the nest day but there was a very poor outcome and the grandfather of seven died days later
It’s just over a week away to Mitchelstown’s first Tractor and Vintage Car Run, which is being organised as a fundraising event for Saint George’s Arts and Heritage Centre.
Eileen Hyland died of metastatic follicular thyroid cancer in May 2017, a year after being diagnosed
For the first time in Ireland, a life-saving treatment will be provided to cancer patients on dialysis following a settlement agreement between Cork University Hospital (CUH) and a bereaved family.
The new provision of radioactive iodine therapy (RAIT) for cancer patients who are on dialysis came as a result of a High Court case taken by the family of Eileen Hyland, who died in May 2017.
The Hyland family claimed there was a failure on the.
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Dialysis cancer patients to get life-saving therapy Family challenged initial decision not to provide radioactive iodine therapy
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Eileen Hyland, who died in 2017. Her son describes hospital’s decision as ‘fitting legacy’ which he hopes ‘ will help a lot more families in the future’.
A life-saving new treatment for cancer patients who are on dialysis is being provided in the State for the first time following a legal case taken by a Cork family.
Cork University Hospital (CUH) has begun providing radioactive iodine therapy (RAIT) for cancer patients who are on dialysis, the hospital has confirmed.
The new service is being provided in fulfilment of a settlement reached last year with the family of a 68-year-old woman patient with thyroid cancer who had sued the hospital.