Hospitals seek to work side by side

A NEW private hospital under construction in Limerick wants to link up with the Mid-Western Regional Hospital and fulfil a government aim of having public and private hospitals work side-by-side.

The owner of the Limerick Private Hospital said his facility will be located about a mile from the Regional in Dooradoyle and can achieve Health Minister Mary Harney’s objective for ‘co-location’ of public and private hospitals in centres such as Limerick.

Shay Sweeney, of Blackberry Properties Ltd said if his private hospital is approved for co-location with Dooradoyle by the Health Service Executive (HSE), it would free up land on the Regional hospital campus for the development of a new maternity hospital, rather than put another private hospital there.