ANOTHER leading consultant is to quit his post in Cork, bringing to three the number of specialists to leave the region in six months.

CORK’S Government representatives admitted yesterday that the city’s cancer services are inadequate, but vowed to pursue funding to improve the situation.

A CONSULTANT paediatrician has quit his post over a lack of resources, dealing a further blow to the embattled health service.

THE Government is breaking its own guidelines for the safe provision of chemotherapy by failing to provide dedicated cancer wards at hospitals.

LIMERICK mother Gerardine Murphy is one of thousands of cancer patients from around Munster who will benefit from a new treatment machine switched on in Cork yesterday.

LIMERICK mother Gerardine Murphy is one of thousands of cancer patients from around Munster who will benefit from a new treatment machine switched on in Cork yesterday.

CORK University Hospital recently received the resignation of consultant oncologist Dr Oscar Breathnach, leaving only one medical oncologist in the hospital.

THE resignation of Cork University Hospital oncologist Dr Oscar Breathnach shows desperate times call for desperate measures.

FINE Gael Deputy Bernard Allen yesterday put the blame for the resignation of a Cork oncologist firmly at the door of the Department of Health.

A HOSPITAL from which a cancer specialist resigned in frustration at the lack of a dedicated ward for his patients has rooms lying idle due to lack of funding.

THE chronic lack of resources for cancer treatment outside of the Dublin region is a damning indictment of the Government’s failure to deliver on its promise to create a world-class health service in Ireland.

AN award-winning cancer treatment specialist has quit his job at one of the country’s busiest hospitals because of a lack of resources.

WE applaud the Minister for Health and Children, Micheál Martin, for his plan to ban smoking from the workplace from January 1 next.