Martin backs plan to centralise acute care

A CONTROVERSIAL proposal to centralise all acute care services in Cork and Kerry into a single hospital has been backed by Government parties.

Martin backs plan to centralise acute care
Fri, 22 May, 2009 - 01:00
Catherine Shanahan

Former health minister and current Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin said yesterday, Cork and Kerry “had to be looked at as one single care system”.

He said surgeons in the region had endorsed the proposal to carry out all acute surgery at Cork University Hospital (CUH) and they were the experts.

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