Hospital workers ready to fight downgrade

HOSPITAL workers at the only hospital on Cork’s northside united last night to fight Health Service Executive (HSE) plans to downgrade the facility.

Hospital workers ready to fight downgrade
Tue, 14 Oct, 2008 - 01:00

Almost 100 staff from St Mary’s Orthopaedic Hospital packed City Hall’s public gallery to warn politicians that they will resist fiercely any attempts to transfer their services to Cork University Hospital (CUH) on the southside.

They said they will not allow authorities to close the northside’s only hospital following the closure of the North Infirmary General Hospital in 1987.

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