THE Health Service Executive (HSE) has bowed to public pressure and extended the contract for a third consultant surgeon post at a north Cork hospital.

FURTHER to correspondence between the deputy general manager of Cork University Hospital and consultants in Mallow Hospital, as detailed recently in the Irish Examiner (April 4), I, too, wish to state my dissatisfaction with the proposal to curtail surgery hours, albeit possibly on a temporary basis, at Mallow General Hospital.

PLANS by the Health Service Executive to end weekend emergency surgery at a Cork hospital have been condemned by the Irish Hospital Consultants Association.

CONSULTANTS at a Cork hospital have sought an urgent meeting with both the Health Service Executive (HSE) and the Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) over plans to cut weekend emergency surgery services.