Limerick to get €60m private hospital

A NEW €60 million private hospital is to be built in Limerick employing 150 medical staff, it was announced yesterday.

The hospital, which will be located on the Dock Road, will have 95 beds, six operating theatres, a state-of-the-art physiotherapy centre and 14 recovery units.

Work is to commence straight away and the first patients will be cared for in 2007. The design provides for a three-tier underground parking facility for ambulances, as well as patients and visitor access.