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ST COLUMCILLE’S HOSPITAL in Loughlinstown in Dublin is to review the colonoscopy results of 65 patients.
The review is being carried out after the hospital examined a number of colonoscopies performed by a doctor at the facility between November 2017 and April 2018.
That came on foot of concerns about the colonoscopy results from another staff member, who informed hospital management using an internal reporting system.
According to a spokeswoman for the Ireland East Hospital Group, the patients involved have been identified and contacted by the hospital, as have their referring doctors.
It was also confirmed that the patients underwent diagnostic colonoscopies, whereby they were checked because they had gastrointestinal symptoms such as abdominal pain or bleeding.
The affected patients are now expected to undergo a repeat of the procedure, which involves an endoscopic examination of the bowel to look for abnormalities.
Speaking about the review, Clinical Lead for Endoscopy at the Ireland East Hospital Group, Dr Garret Cullen stressed that the measure was precautionary only, and that the risk to affected patients was low.
He said: “We acknowledge that patients may be anxious about being called for an appointment but I want to reassure them that this is purely a precautionary measure.
“Appointments are currently being scheduled and we expect this process to be complete within four weeks.”
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Hardly surprising, this government has no interest in reducing Ireland’s carbon footprint other than by taxing residents on so called green initiatives. The waste in government departments & their quangos could save the country billions.
@@murraymitchell@mastodon.scot: Blatantly untrue. Read something other than Journal comments. I’m all for criticising the government, particularly for this failure to produce a climate plan, but this idea that it’s all about tax… just search online and you will find plenty of other strategies.
@@murraymitchell@mastodon.scot: our footprint is practically non existent. Its worst in poor countries whos citizens have frankly more important things to worry about, like putting food on the table and a roof over their heads. What can we reasonably do that we arent already doing? finding out that all the plastics we go to the trouble of seperating ends up in the same dump incinerator isnt helping, and i am not going electric until im forced to, seeing as most people only get them as a show off status symbol of wealth and ‘caring’. Im sick of the hypocrisy, there are very few people who really walk the walk on climate change, except that American actor from the 80s whos been driving an electric car for over 30 years
@Nicholas McMurry: it’s really about tax and power.
Yeah great I can see where this is going!!
The tax and the Greens. Rebate due Eamo?
@Mary Nugent: Eamo the green knight in shining armour coming to the rescue. Get stuffed.
@Paul Gorry: obviously not you Mary but the cretan mr Ryan.
The world is 15% more green than it was 20 years ago (size of the USA) simply because of more co2 in the atmosphere as plants are growing in semi arid regions desertification is not as extreme as they once believed it would be. 300 to 400 part’s per million co2 has been normal on earth previously and co2 levels have been higher before. Greta, eamon and the green multinational push will just steam roll us all and mother nature will always catch us all eventually.
@Jim Casey: The last time carbon levels were as high as they are now was 3 million years ago. There was no ice at the poles, and sea levels were at least 10m higher than today. The current rate of change in carbon levels is many times higher than any historical change that has been recorded. Mother nature may indeed catch us all, but removal of all the excess carbon from the atmosphere will take centuries.
@Nicholas McMurry: and nature will beat anything we do ……. simple put if we do nothing or something here in little Ireland it will means zero… it depends on China mostly and she has greened deserts despite opening a new coal power plant every week. Its a geopolitical thing as much as a climate crisis …….to stop climate change the poorest people must be made more wealthy so that they can see the benefits of been green and not just trying to survive. When we become more equal in terms of wealth then climate change might be tackled more effectively
@Jim Casey: Where’s your science? Nature will take centuries according to the available evidence. Do you have better information? Becoming greener is a necessary element of becoming more equal.
@Nicholas McMurry: And nature will reduce the carbon levels in centuries only if we stop pumping it into the atmosphere now.
@Nicholas McMurry: there facts ……which can be related to disciplines other than science…….. make the poor more wealthy and they’ll be more inclined to become green. No science needed
15 minute city, with a digital freedom pass, linked to your carbon credits, medical status all centrally controlled CBDC.
@O’Brien: sounds like a prison!
Hush, don’t wake Eamon Ryan, he might actually get something done that helps people
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