Surgeon warns: To deprive CUH of co-location would be ‘catastrophic’

A PRIVATE hospital on the grounds of Ireland’s largest publicly owned hospital campus is not sustainable, groups fighting the controversial project told a public hearing yesterday.

However, one of the country’s top surgeons said anything that would deprive Cork University Hospital (CUH) of the co-located facilities proposed by the Beacon Medical Group (BMG) would be “catastrophic”.

“The greater good must prevail,” consultant surgeon and professor of surgery Liam Kirwan said.