Tenders delay opening of clinic’s dialysis unit
A long-awaited private clinic promised in Kilkenny is open but its still not up and running because of tendering delays. It means dialysis patients have to travel more than an hour away to Waterford Regional Hospital’s unit which is now working through the night.
At the Wellstone Clinic in Kilkenny, 12 dialysis stations are lying idle. According to a spokesperson for the Irish medical and surgical sales and marketing company PEI, which is the owner/operator of the clinic, the facility “has no patients yet” although it became operational on January 23.
