Bleak health prefab to stay

DICKENSIAN conditions look set to continue at the only artificial limb-fitting centre in the south.

Bleak health  prefab  to stay

The centre is contained in an old prefab in the grounds of St Finbarr’s Hospital.

Archaic conditions were publicly highlighted in February 2007 when Labour Deputy Ciarán Lynch made a visit there with a health worker whose husband was having a second prosthetic leg fitted. The prefab was described at the time as being like “a cardboard box” while disabled parking spaces were not close enough to the facility.

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