€2m lab to tackle heart disease

KERRY has the highest rate of heart disease in Ireland but a new cardiac laboratory at the Bon Secours Hospital, in Tralee, should help early detection and treatment of the disease.

This was claimed yesterday at the opening of the €2.2 million cardiac catheterisation laboratory.

The only facility of its kind in the county, the five-bed laboratory will treat private patients and patients referred from Kerry General Hospital.