Hospital hygiene improvements ‘underway’

WORK is underway to improve hygiene standards at Kerry General Hospital (KGH), Tralee, according to the Health Service Executive (HSE).

There was controversy when the hospital was ranked in the bottom five in the first national hospitals’ hygiene audit last October, but KGH manager Margie Lynch yesterday said a lot of work had been done since then.

She said staff and management were committed to implementing the hygiene audit’s recommendations.