Public patients to avail of new private cancer facilities

PUBLIC patients will be able to use modern cancer-fighting machinery in a private hospital in Waterford early in the new year, the Health Service Executive (HSE) said yesterday.

Assistant national director of the HSE’s National Hospital’s Office, Tom Finn, said the only issues delaying public patients being treated at the Whitfield Cancer Centre in Waterford were medical and technical.

Funding was not a problem, he insisted.