A different kind of operation at Cavan General Hospital
Twenty staff vie to be the 'Biggest Loser' in major weight-loss programme
Team leaders get ready to fight it out as Operation Transformation began in the Cavan Sports & Leisure Complex on Monday night. Each team consisits of ten women all of whom are staff at Cavan General and are taking part to promote physical activity and improve diets over a six-week strict programme in partnership with the leisure centre. Back (from left): Patricia Pakenham, Annette King, Michelle Beard, Catriona King, Anita Doherty Kelly and Nora Browne; Third row, Dr Ash Butt; Eimear Griffin, organiser and hospital physio; Dympna Sheilds, organiser; Eimear McNamara; Rita Cullen; Mary Florence; Serena Gardener, gym instructor; Emma Ryan, Radisson SAS Farnham Estate spa manager (sponsor); Michael Coyle, gym instructor; Rosie Comiskey; Dr Dara Hume; Lisa Stenson; Bridget Clarke, hospital general manager; Jacinta McAree Murphy, health promotion officer and project co-ordinator and Doctor Chemi; Second row, Catherine Farrelly, Bernie Fitzpatrick, Kathleen Heaslip, Margaret Stenson, Peggy Plunkett, Maria Boylan and Maura Costello; front row, Grey team (The Transformers) leader Rosie Mulligan; Ann Coyle, organiser and manager of Cavan Sports Complex; and white team (The Enthusiasts) leader Bernie Walshe. Photo Sheila Rooney
Use the words operation and hospital in the same sentence and it usually means one thing, writes Seamus Enright. But some 20 members of staff at Cavan General Hospital are taking a more light-hearted approach to it, and all for a healthier heart with the group embarking on a Hospital Operation Transformation in a bid to improve their lifestyle.
A spin-off from TV health promotion shows Operation Transformation and Biggest Loser, the in-hospital initiative is being organised by the hospital's health promotion officer and project co-ordinator Jacinta McAree-Murphy.
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