Current Projects
EBUS (Endo Bronchial Ultrasound) machine
The EBUS (Endo Bronchial Ultrasound) for the Respiratory Medicine Department is currently under order from Olympus, expected delivery date in early December 2019. Once this equipment is delivered and commissioned, the Friends will engage with hospital management around the next major fund-raising project. with a particular emphasis on new service development. EBUS will be used by the Consultant Respiratory Physicians in the hospital to assist them in the earlier diagnosis of serious respiratory disease, such as lung cancer. There is much research to show that the earlier that lung cancer can be diagnosed, the quicker medical intervention can be initiated, the better the outcomes in relation to survival and cure rates.





Our Focus
This voluntary organisation, which was granted charitable status in 1995, has two main objectives:
to raise funds via charitable donations/fundraising to provide seed capital for the development of new services in LUH and secondly to facilitate voluntary work to augment ordinary hospital services. The Friends have been responsible for raising in excess of €7 million from membership fees, donations, church gate collections and various fund-raising events throughout the North West since 1992.
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Contact Details
Letterkenny University Hospital,
Letterkenny,
County Donegal,
Ireland
Tel: (074)91 04466
GPS: 54.955839,-7.734279