St. James's Hospital

Fergal, how are you? John Sullivan is my name.

I'm a urologist that works in St. James's Hospital and I'm involved and participating in the NWIP stand today.

And we're trying to shine a light on the fact that about 50% of the time are not far off us.

When couples are having issues with fertility, it's the man that has the issue.

Now, uh, it's been studied for a good while actually and, and Ireland has had a big focus on this.

My dear old pals, Con Very, Cleono Farrelly, they had worked, they worked on celiac up in St. James's Hospital because it's such a quite common in Ireland, and that tells us something.

There's a bit of genetics behind this as well.

So it's quite a common th- thing for Irish scientists to be working on.

And even though I'm talking about clinical trials and the importance of clinical trials, CAR T is becoming standard of care treatment across Europe.

And what I'd like to point out is that back in 2022, when we opened our first CAR T centre in St. James's Hospital, in dublin the minister for health went down to cut the ribbon and by coincidence when we opened the first car tea center in ireland i had a message um from a friend in that works in lymphoma coalition based in madrid and by coincidence she had sent me a message there's a michael great news uh spain is opening 14 car tea centers on top of the 18 they have already 14 therapy centers on top of the 18 they have already.

That's 32.

Wow.

And I remember telling her I had been raped by him.

And I remember telling her to bring me to A&E, to St. James's Hospital.

We'll get sorted and we'll go home and forget everything ever happened.

And my mum was like, no, Nikita, we're not doing that.

Next minute, they found me missing.

And there's me making my way to the front gates of St. James's Hospital, about to get on the bus.

They get the bus from St. James's into the city.

They get the bus from Dublin to Monaghan.

Yes.

And I would ask people also to be open, because, for instance, when it comes to the hospital, people say to me, "Paolo, hardly the patients and the staff are going to take the tram, uh, to go to the hospital, to hospital." And I look at James's Hospital, and I'm quoting a survey that was done-

Mm-hmm

... by the HSE between two thousand and fourteen and two thousand and twenty-four, and in two thousand and twenty-four, thirty-seven percent of the staff in St. James's Hospital in Dublin commuted by public transport.

Yeah.

Eleven percent by Luas.

And when it comes to the patients, one hundred and five thousand people have a- access within forty-five minutes, uh, to James's Hospital by public transport thanks to the Luas, not thanks to other modes.

Yeah.