A SURGERY is facing criticism after an eight-month-old baby ended up seriously ill and a three-year-old girl was hospitalised with pneumonia after both were refused GP appointments. Mums Kerri Lynn, 23, and Clair Ptolemy, 41, faced the trauma of having their daughters rushed to the Sick Children s Hospital in Glasgow after being blocked from seeing a doctor at the Port Glasgow Medical Practice. Clair told how little Sanni-Lee Ptolomey, aged three, fell unwell during a weekend and was sent to Inverclyde Royal s out of hours service. Despite this she was still refused a follow-up with a GP. Clair, from King Street, said: She still wasn t well and I wanted to get her checked but they just told me to keep an eye on her and didn t give me an appointment.
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Donegal Heart Failure team members, Left to right are Karen McCafferty, Clinical Nurse Specialist, Heart Failure Integrated Care; Cathy Farrell, Heart Failure Advanced Nurse Practitioner and Eoin Sheehy, Chief Cardiac Physiologist, Heart Failure Integrated Care.
New Donegal Integrated Heart Failure Service set up Posted: 9:49 am May 11, 2021
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To coincide with European Heart Failure Awareness Week (10 to 16 May), Letterkenny University Hospital and Community Healthcare Organisation Area 1 (CHO1) has established a new Heart Failure Service which aims to support the diagnosis and treatment of people with heart failure living in Donegal.
Heart failure is one of the major chronic diseases in Ireland and quality of life can be improved with appropriate medication and lifestyle changes. It affects around two per cent of the general population but this rises to 10 per cent to those over 70 and is the leading cause of admission to hospital in those aged o
KINGSTON, ONT. Kingston, Frontenac, Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health is advising public transit riders in Kingston to seek COVID-19 testing after a transit rider who used two buses last Monday tested positive. In a release on Saturday, KFL&A Public Health said the individual used Kingston Transit routes 501 and 502 on Monday, April 5. The health unit says it is issuing the public notice to aid in contact tracing efforts because it is unable to identify all riders on the routes affected. The two buses in question are as follows: Monday, April 5: Route 502 departing Princess Street (north side) at Nelson Street at 1:04 p.m. to the Cataraqui Centre.
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