THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has been accused of putting “the cart before the horse” by announcing a November closure date for the emergency department at Mallow General Hospital when alternative care plans have not yet been implemented.

PATIENTS are having to wait about 15 months for a routine MRI scan at Cork University Hospital while a CT scanner at Mallow Hospital in Co Cork promised by the Government four years ago is still lying idle.

CANCER survivor and comedian Jon Kenny has blasted a Health Service Executive (HSE) decision to leave idle a €1 million lifesaving machine.

A VOLUNTARY organisation has expressed anger and shock at the news that a long-awaited hospital project will not get funding this year.

THE Government has been accused of “starving Mallow General Hospital of adequate funding”, according to volunteers helping to support the facility financially.