Specialist facial care ends over funding

LACK of funding has forced doctors in Cork to stop a unique treatment programme where patients who lost facial parts to tumours were able to have their faces rebuilt.

Cork is the only city in Ireland providing an integrated service which combines medical and dental expertise.

But patients from the south may be forced to go to Britain for prosthetics treatment if the Cork University Hospital (CUH) -based service does not secure funding to put it on a permanent footing.