Legal threat over hospital services

SUPPORTERS of a major regional hospital threatened legal action yesterday to safeguard its services.

The Mallow General Hospital Action Group spoke out after it emerged on Wednesday that a lifesaving 1 million CT scanner, which arrived at the north Cork hospital before Christmas, is still wrapped in plastic and gathering dust in storage because there is no radiographer to operate it.

Action group secretary Joe Sherlock TD held a press conference yesterday to highlight this and other problems facing the hospital. He called on health bosses to cut through red tape and urgently appoint specialists to operate the scanner.