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EMERGENCY SERVICES Now that acute in-patient care has ended at the Tyrone County hospital, people from Omagh who need urgent medical help have to travel to Derry and Enniskillen. | |  LISTEN
| VIGIL 2 March 2009 "A hundred and ten years of service at an end." That was  how a consultant described the situation at the Tyrone County hospital in Omagh, at a vigil to mark the official end of acute in-patient care there. It means some people who need urgent medical help will have to travel to Enniskillen or Derry. Louise Cullen reports. |
| | LISTEN | 2012 - 2 March 2009 The Western Health and Social Care Trust is insisting that the network of services available now is adequate. A new acute hospital in Enniskillen won't be completed until 2012. But Joe Lusby, the Trust's Deputy Chief Executive, says that's not really so long to wait. |
| | LISTEN | "EVERY SECOND COUNTS" - January 2009 Patients and councillors in Omagh expressed anger at the announcement that Tyrone County General would lose its acute services. Michael O'Donnell reports. |
| | LISTEN | STAFFING - January 2009 The Western Trust says it's been clear for a long time that the population of the south west could not support an acute hospital. The Trust's chairman, Gerard Guckian, and Accident and Emergency consultant, Alan McKinney, spoke to Enda McClafferty. |
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