Don’t die at night if you want the Last Rites - Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune

Don’t die at night if you want the Last Rites - Connacht Tribune - Galway City Tribune

Patients who die after 9pm at University Hospital Galway (UHG) may not get the ‘Last Rites’ because the HSE has stopped providing a 24-hours-a-day chaplaincy service at the West of Ireland’s only major acute hospital. The Connacht Tribune has learned that some patients who died unexpectedly overnight at UHG in recent months were not given the Last Rites due to a rationalisation of the service by the HSE to comply with employment legislation. The…