THE sexual assault treatment unit at Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, which was closed because of a lack of funding, will not be reopened, the Health Service Executive (HSE) confirmed yesterday.

MOST of the poorest performers in the latest hospital hygiene audit are in Cork, with the city’s South Infirmary-Victoria University Hospital emerging as one of two dirtiest hospitals in the country.

MORE than 4,000 women are waiting up to two years for a mammogram that can detect breast cancer up to a year-and-a-half before there are any symptoms of the disease.

HOSPITAL porters in Cork say they will continue to watch psychiatric patients at risk of harming themselves and other patients or staff with “great reluctance”.