KERRY cancer patients who have to travel to Cork University Hospital (CUH) for surgery and treatment are to be given assistance with transport costs.

HOSPITALS around the country were told to survive within their budgets as Mary Harney warned of a “tough, tight year” ahead for the health services.

A DETERMINED campaign, including the collection of more than 20,000 signatures, to retain cancer treatment services at Kerry General Hospital seems to have failed, it emerged.

MORE than 150 people staged a silent protest yesterday against plans to withdraw most of the cancer services provided at Tralee General Hospital in Kerry.