Call to secure future of Bantry A&E

THE people of Bantry should be given the same commitment to safeguard their hospital’s A&E services that has been given to the people of Tralee.

That’s the view of a former mayor of Co Cork, Councillor John O’Shea who said the Team Work report – which suggests closing all A&Es in Cork and centralising the service in Cork University Hospital (CUH) – should be scrapped.

Kerry General Hospital has been guaranteed that it is exempt from any cuts proposed in the report due for publication on June 9 – four days after the local and European elections.