Radiotherapy unit can’t open due to lack of funds

A €12.7 MILLION radiotherapy unit cannot open to cancer patients because a shortfall in funding means it cannot be staffed.

Tue, 29 Apr, 2003 - 01:00

Catherine Shanahan

Doctors at University College Hospital Galway (UCHG) said yesterday there was now no chance of the facility opening before 2005, despite government promises that it would be

completed by autumn 2003.

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