A SEVERELY physically and mentally disabled man is to lose three quarters of his disability allowance towards the cost of his respite care.

THE head of hospital services in the Health Service Executive (HSE) South has refused to rule out a downgrading of emergency department and surgical services in the region on a par with those being implemented in the Mid-West.

MORE than 11,000 children under the age of 15 are on waiting lists throughout Co Cork for tuberculosis (TB) vaccinations, it has emerged.

Members of the Irish Nurses’ Organisation (INO) today threatened to escalate their row over shorter working hours.

A NURSES’ dispute over a shorter working week will escalate unless the first step towards a resolution is delivered today.

ALMOST a year after the opening of the country’s newest maternity hospital, its gynaecology theatres remain closed, leaving 117 women on a waiting list, some in need of urgent procedures.

A FINNISH pathologist whose work at Cork University Hospital (CUH) is the subject of an independent review has been reported to the Medical Council.

CONTRARY to popular belief, the number one reason men want children is to bring love and satisfaction to their lives — and not to carry on the family name.

Surgery will resume in Kerry General Hospital today after electricians, suspended during a row over the changing of a lightbulb, restored emergency cover.

A TUBERCULOSIS vaccine routinely given to newborns, with the exception of babies born in Cork, would have cost the Government little more than €16,500 when the Southern Health Board (SHB) sought funding in 2001.

HEALTH managers moved yesterday to ease fears over midwifes who have promised they will boycott the opening of the country’s newest maternity hospital over staffing levels.

A NEW crisis pregnancy counselling service that will offer support and contraception to women of all ages was launched in west Cork yesterday.

THE number of violent incidents against staff at Kerry General Hospital in Tralee has almost doubled in the past year, the Health Service Executive (HSE) South confirmed yesterday.