Two Cork hospitals to amalgamate

TWENTY years ago, pensioners on the northside of Cork city offered to contribute 50p a week towards the upkeep of the North Infirmary Hospital in an effort to keep it open.

In the end, no amount of campaigning could save the northside’s only general hospital and it closed in 1987.

The loss of this service was raised at a press conference yesterday where representatives of both the Mercy University Hospital (MUH) and the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital (SIVUH) gathered to announce plans to amalgamate under a new roof.