HSE signs contract to build satellite dialysis unit near mid-west hospital

A CONTRACT has been signed by the HSE for the construction of a satellite dialysis unit near the Mid-Western Regional Hospital.

Patients from the mid-west have been forced to get treatment in Galway and Dublin because the regional’s dialysis unit is operating at full capacity and cannot take on new patients.

Michael Noonan TD, said the new satellite unit will be ready for use by September 2008: “The HSE’s response is as a result of ongoing representations by me and a parliamentary question I put down to the Minister for Health urging immediate action.