St. Columcille’s Hospital Injuries Unit
Injury Units specialise in addressing minor injuries that are not expected to require hospital admission.
For those with a full medical card or a GP referral letter, there is no charge for the services provided at Injury Units. However, if a patient doesn’t fall into these categories, the cost for attending an Injury Unit is €75.
Address: St. Columcille’s Hospital, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin
Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 08.00 – 18.00hrs
Suitable for the following patients:
- Aged 14 years and up
- Suspected broken bones to legs, from knees to toes
- Suspected broken bones to arms, from collarbone (clavicle) to fingertips
- All sprains and strains
- Minor facial injuries (including oral, dental and nasal injuries)
- Minor scalds and burns
- Wounds, bites, cuts, grazes and scalp lacerations
- Small abscesses and boils
- Splinters and fish hooks
- Foreign bodies in eyes/ears/nose
- Minor head injury (fully-conscious patients, who did not experience loss of consciousness or have more than one episode of vomiting after the head injury)