Injury Units specialise in addressing minor injuries that are not expected to require hospital admission.
About St. Columcille’s Injury Unit
Address: St. Columcille’s Hospital, Bray Road, Loughlinstown, Dublin 18, D18 V9K1.
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Opening hours: Monday to Sunday 8am – 7pm
Telephone: 01 211 5048
No appointment is required
Costs
There is no charge for patients with a medical card, medical or GP referral letter or referral from an emergency department.
It costs €75 for all other patients to attend an injury unit.
Who can attend
- Patients must be aged 14 or over
- Injuries must be less than six weeks old
What we can treat
- 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 lose consciousness or vomit following the head injury)