Letterkenny General Hospital
Letterkenny General Hospital is an acute general and maternity hospital serving 147,000 inhabitants of County Donegal in Ireland.One of Ireland's busiest, the campus is divided by a main road heading north towards Inishowen. A teaching hospital, it maintains links with NUI Galway, LYIT and the Royal College of Surgeons. The General Manager is Sean Murphy, the Director of Nursing is Dr. Anne Flood and the Clinical Director is Dr. Paul O'Connor.The hospital has often found itself at the centre of the problems faced by Ireland's crumbling Health Service, extending back to the Fianna Fáil/Progressive Democrat governments of Bertie Ahern and Mary Harney to the present Fine Gael/Labour coalition. A common feature is the treatment of patients on trolleys due to chronic bed shortages. The hospital is currently closed to all patients and visitors after being destroyed by flooding in July 2013. It is not expected to open for a long, long time.HistoryOverviewThe General Hospital replaced the County Hospital which opened in 1832 and closed on 31 August 1960. Nowadays the hospital consists of a single storey building that dates from the 1960s, and a multi-storey extension built above this and opened in 1981. Most of the facilities are housed in this building but some, such as the dental, ophthalmic and some mental health facilities, are housed across the road in St. Conal's Psychiatric Hospital.
