EXTRA NURSES SET TO RELIEVE HOSPITAL STAFF
Extra nurses set to relieve hospital staff
By EMMA FLYNN
EXTRA medical staff are giving their services to Tyrone County Hospital after a request for help from their colleagues in Omagh.
Nine administrative staff from the Causeway Health and Social Services Trust arrived yesterday at the hospital and nursing staff are on stand-by.
There are three patients from the Omagh bomb tragedy still in the Tyrone County who are in a stable condition and six in the Erne hospital, Enniskillen, also described as stable.
The extra staff would relieve the over-burdened staff at Tyrone County and give them time to attend staff support sessions and counselling after their horrific experiences.
Vincent Ryan, director of Planning at Tyrone County Hospital said: "The staff are obviously still affected by the whole thing. This will carry on for weeks or months. It certainly doesn't disappear overnight."
"The Causeway staff will be a great help. The administrative side of things is behind because of other administrative duties during the week. And the nurses on standby will allow our medical staff to have counselling."
"Many have lost families, and staff have been working up to 20 hours a day since the bomb. They need time to reflect," he said.
Bill Tweed, chief executive of the Causeway HSST, said the response from staff was "magnanimous".
"Causeway staff are only too anxious to show their solidarity with the Omagh staff at this tragic time," he said.
Four of the 28 injured victims being cared for at the Royal Victoria Hospital were discharged home yesterday.
One patient was moved to the Ulster hospital and two children were moved out of intensive care and are described as "ill but stable".
Four women and a man are still in a critical condition, 13 are stable, two are comfortable and one is described as satisfactory, according to an RVH spokeswoman yesterday.
The patients include a 13-month-old baby and four Spanish nationals - one adult and three children. The oldest patient is 68 years old.
Two patients are still in Belfast City Hospital including a 75-year-old woman who is in intensive care and described as "serious but stable" and 21-year-old Diane McCann, who is in a stable condition with spinal injuries.
Omagh bomb victims being treated at Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital were yesterday afternoon all declared to be in a "stable" condition.
One woman has been discharged leaving 15 patients, six of them children aged between 8 and 14.
Three females still in the South Tyrone Hospital are all "stable", the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, is caring for eight patients and there are six at the Erne, all in a stable condition.
By EMMA FLYNN
EXTRA medical staff are giving their services to Tyrone County Hospital after a request for help from their colleagues in Omagh.
Nine administrative staff from the Causeway Health and Social Services Trust arrived yesterday at the hospital and nursing staff are on stand-by.
There are three patients from the Omagh bomb tragedy still in the Tyrone County who are in a stable condition and six in the Erne hospital, Enniskillen, also described as stable.
The extra staff would relieve the over-burdened staff at Tyrone County and give them time to attend staff support sessions and counselling after their horrific experiences.
Vincent Ryan, director of Planning at Tyrone County Hospital said: "The staff are obviously still affected by the whole thing. This will carry on for weeks or months. It certainly doesn't disappear overnight."
"The Causeway staff will be a great help. The administrative side of things is behind because of other administrative duties during the week. And the nurses on standby will allow our medical staff to have counselling."
"Many have lost families, and staff have been working up to 20 hours a day since the bomb. They need time to reflect," he said.
Bill Tweed, chief executive of the Causeway HSST, said the response from staff was "magnanimous".
"Causeway staff are only too anxious to show their solidarity with the Omagh staff at this tragic time," he said.
Four of the 28 injured victims being cared for at the Royal Victoria Hospital were discharged home yesterday.
One patient was moved to the Ulster hospital and two children were moved out of intensive care and are described as "ill but stable".
Four women and a man are still in a critical condition, 13 are stable, two are comfortable and one is described as satisfactory, according to an RVH spokeswoman yesterday.
The patients include a 13-month-old baby and four Spanish nationals - one adult and three children. The oldest patient is 68 years old.
Two patients are still in Belfast City Hospital including a 75-year-old woman who is in intensive care and described as "serious but stable" and 21-year-old Diane McCann, who is in a stable condition with spinal injuries.
Omagh bomb victims being treated at Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital were yesterday afternoon all declared to be in a "stable" condition.
One woman has been discharged leaving 15 patients, six of them children aged between 8 and 14.
Three females still in the South Tyrone Hospital are all "stable", the Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, is caring for eight patients and there are six at the Erne, all in a stable condition.
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Publisher: NEWS LETTER
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Published Date: 25-Aug-98
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