Consultant attacks CUH co-location proposal

THE Government’s hospital co-location policy was slated at a public hearing yesterday by a former president of the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).

Consultant geriatrician at Nenagh General Hospital, Dr Christine O’Malley said there is a very real danger that Cork University Hospital (CUH) will become unsustainable if a for-profit private hospital is built on its grounds.

She made her comments in a submission on behalf of the Campaign for a Real Public Health Service during the final day of a Bord Pleanála oral hearing into the Beacon Medical Group’s (BMG) plans to build the controversial 175-bed private hospital on the CUH campus.