Landmark day for city’s maternity services

TODAY has long been earmarked as a landmark day for maternity services in Cork.

With the Erinville Maternity Hospital, St Finbarr’s Maternity Unit and the Bon Secours Maternity Hospital scheduled to close their timeworn doors, the €75 million state-of-the-art Cork University Maternity Hospital (CUMH) was poised to assume that mantle of care.

In this context, it is fitting to look at the contribution the three older hospitals have made to the women, their families and the community they served.