New cancer clinic to rank among the best available globally, says Cullen

TWO hundred and fifty jobs are to be created in Waterford from June of next year in a new private hospital which will offer cutting-edge public and private healthcare for the region.

Transport Minister Martin Cullen yesterday laid the foundation stone at the €40 million Whitfield Clinic, a 40-bed hospital currently under construction on the main Waterford-Cork road. An Irish-US partnership will provide radiotherapy to cancer patients from across the south-east within 18 months at the facility.

Irish-based healthcare infrastructure company Euro Care International has combined with UPMC Cancer Centers, one of the largest networks of cancer physicians and health care specialists in the United States, to develop and operate the radiotherapy facility at Whitfield Clinic. It will feature two linear accelerators to treat public and private patients.