Hospital opens €1m cancer drug pharmacy

A LEADING private hospital has invested €1 million in a state-of-the-art pharmacy that will give more treatment options to cancer patients.

The Bon Secours Hospital in Cork announced yesterday it has opened its new sterile “chemotherapy drug compounding” unit where all of the drug treatments for the hospital’s cancer patients will be prepared.

The hospital, one of Europe’s leading hospitals in cancer treatment, has a dedicated 23-bed in-patient ward and a dedicated 17-patient day ward.