Work to start on new Kerry A&E

WORK is expected to start on a new Accident and Emergency unit at Kerry General Hospital, Tralee, later this year.

Doctors and politicians in the county have been campaigning for several years for the unit, claiming the present unit lacks facilities and staff and is incapable of meeting demands.

Kerry GPs staged a protest at the hospital, claiming that smaller A&E units in other parts of the country had more consultants and registrars and twice the number of junior doctors.