The 24-hour emergency department at Mallow General Hospital will close in late March as part of a major reorganisation of services at the hospital.

MORE than 1,000 hospital beds are closed in facilities across the country and a further 630 are unavailable to patients due to delayed discharges of treated people.

Hungry Hondurans scrambled through looted shops and lined up for food during a break in a long curfew called to halt violence that erupted with the return of the country’s deposed leftist president.

CONTROVERSIAL plans to co-locate public and private hospitals at six sites around the country are not likely to be affected by budget changes to capital allowance schemes.

IT WAS the banner that read “Death by Geography” that best summed up how about 250 people from the north-west of the country felt yesterday when they protested outside Leinster House against the planned downgrading of cancer treatment services at Sligo General Hospital.