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Dungarvan Observer | Friday, 3 June, 2016
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Front row (l. to r.): Carmel Murphy, Una McGrath, Kay Power, Bernie Walsh, Lynsay Kennedy. Back row (l. to r.): Mr. Asam Ishtiaq, Dr. Sean Nugent, Dr. Kevin Ward and Dr. Liam Doran. [Garret Fitzgerald]
Celebrating 10 years of Endoscopy services at Whitfield as second Endoscopy suite completed WHITFIELD Clinic opened as a state of the art healthcare facility in Waterford in 2006 and the Endoscopy Unit has been at the forefront of ongoing clinical developments at the Clinic since then. As part of ongoing investment at Whitfield Clinic, a second endoscopy suite has been added and the unit has just received new Olympus endoscopy equipment including electronic reporting / archiving system to cap total investment of â‚Ź600,000 in the last 18 months. Mr. Asam Ishtiaq and Mr. Terence Christle commenced the service in November 2006 and
were soon joined by Dr. Sean Nugent who returned to his native Waterford from a senior role in NHS Colchester, England. Dr. Nugent is the clinical lead of the unit and has introduced new technologies like capsule endoscopy (first in the private sector), GI manometric and PH studies, Bacterial Breath testing and Argon plasma laser. The team received a further boost when Dr. Kevin Ward moved his long established clinical practice to Whitfield Clinic in 2014 and brought with him many decades of experience. The services of the endoscopy unit are also used by visiting surgeons, Prof. Simon
Cross, Mr. Criostoir O Suilleabhain and Mr. Gerry O’Donoghue. The Endoscopy team carries out 3,000 upper and lower GI endoscopies annually. The unit is fully equipped to provide all aspects of modern diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy services including Carbon Dioxide insufflation during colonoscopy, and ready availability of provision of IV sedation by Consultant Anaesthetic team for maximum patient comfort and safety. The unit is accredited by CHKS and is a participant in National Quality & Assessment programme.
Traffic issues on the move at May’s Dungarvan-Lismore Municipal Meeting By Christy Parker A LONG-AWAITED meeting between Dungar van-Lismore Municipal District councillors and Transport Infrastructure ireland (TII) is still on track, Senior Executive Engineer Pat McCarthy told Cllr. Pat Nugent at May’s committee meeting. Cllr. Nugent recalled that the meeting is expected to discuss, amongst other things, dangerous junctions off Military Road and outside Ballylemon on the N72 CappoquinDungarvan road. Mr. McCarthy said he was also awaiting some
communication with regard to these junctions and also Garranbane Cross. He said he would organise the meeting once that was resolved. He added that the council was constructing designs to improve junctions on Military Road, prior to seeking funding, a task he was co-ordinating in tandem with plans for Garranbane. Cllr. Tom Cronin advocated previous suggestions that moving a speed limit of 60 km some 50 metres from the junction towards Dungarvan might help partly to solve problems in the Garranabane area. Mr. McCarthy responded that TII had appointed independent consultants to
review national routes and speed limits. He had received a draft version of a subsequent report and would circulate it to councillors once several issues about which he was unhappy were clarified.The draft did not allow for a speed limit extension at Garranbane junction and also neglected any alteration to speed limits on Military Road, he specified. TALLOW, CAPPOQUIN AND BALLYDUFF TRAFFIC In other roads issues, Mr. McCarthy told Cllr. Jon Pratt that he would refer back to him regarding an inquiry about traffic calming measures for Tallow. Cllr. Pratt was also con-
cerned that the turn off for Cappoquin Chickens at Lefanta was a dangerous point. Mr. McCarthy said a scheme was being designed to provide a dedicated right turn lane at the location in conjunction with the proposed alteration of speed limits. He would bring the scheme to TII in pursuit of founding in due course. Cllr. James Tobin too had speeding on his mind when he observed that drivers traversing between St. Michael’s Hall Ballyduff and what he termed its main street or housing estates were inclined to go very fast. Senior Engineer Josephine McGrath will investigate.
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