Keeping Ireland Alive

Seventy-five cameras placed throughout the country monitor the workings of the health service, telling the human stories over the course of a 24-hour period.

A woman donates a kidney to her brother, a public health nurse tends to the elderly in Donegal and a keen horserider carries on her hobby despite a diagnosis of MS.

At Letterkenny General Hospital in Donegal, Dr Vinnie Krishnan and his team deal with patients admitted to the Emergency Department, and paramedics Roddy Smith and Damien Bradley respond to a call on the Fanad peninsula. Seven-year-old Jake, who has autism, attends a special clinic in Kildare designed to help him prepare for the trauma of a visit to the dentist, Multi-task attendant Hanna Muldowney does the breakfast round for residents at a public nursing home in Dublin, and in Cork, a long-term smoker is admitted to Cork South Infirmary for surgery to remove tumours from his tongue and throat.

Flying paramedics race to the aid of someone suffering a cardiac arrest. A man undergoes surgery on his penis, and a patient in need of a lung transplant receives some good news.

In the final episode of Keeping Ireland Alive, a man undergoes surgery in his penis, a woman prepares to have a cancerous tumour removed from her pelvis and we meet a man whose life was changed forever in a routine football game.