Overwhelming response to SWAH ‘urgent appeal’ for help


LOCALS across the Fermanagh area took to social media in their droves on Sunday night after the Western Trust sent out an ‘urgent appeal’ for staff needed at SWAH. Due to increasing pressures on the healthcare system regionally, the South West Acute Hospital was left with no other option but to accept patient diverts caused […]

Public urged to stay at home as Trust issues warning


THE WESTERN Trust is pleading with everyone in the community to stay at home and do all they can to stem the spread of the virus, with SWAH launching its “extreme surge planning” as it struggles to cope with the growing number of Covid patients. Trust management has warned the number of Covid positive patients […]

Care homes struggle with growing Covid challenges


JUST LIKE the SWAH, local care homes are struggling to cope with continued staff absences and the rising cases of Covid in the community.  Up until the end of December there had been 20 recorded outbreaks of Covid at care homes declared to the Western Trust. At the same time, homes in the Trust area […]

Tributes for popular social worker who died from Covid


“A GREAT void” has been left in the Western Trust by the passing of popular social worker Nuala McLaughlin, who died from Covid-19 just days before Christmas. Although she was from Tyrone, Nuala (nee McAnenly) was a well known face in Fermanagh and news of her untimely death from the virus has shocked the local community, with […]