Private hospital set for second cancer machine

A SECOND radiotherapy machine will be provided at a private hospital in Waterford, as soon as patient numbers require such an investment, the service providers say.

Planning conditions set down in 2004 require that two linear accelerators should be provided at the radiotherapy unit before the hospital is commissioned.

Another of the 17 conditions set out is that the 40-bed unit can not open until such time as “substantial works” have been carried out on the construction of the Waterford Bypass, in the interests of road safety.