Scandal of €6k weekly outlay on CT scans to end

A PUBLIC hospital which was paying €6,000 a week to a private hospital because its hi-tech scanner was lying idle will resume its own scanning next week.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) confirmed yesterday that, from next Monday, the €1.5 million CT scanner at Mallow General Hospital is due to resume procedures five days a week.

The scanner was commissioned at Mallow hospital in July 2008 and operated by a locum radiologist, pending the permanent filling of the post. Interviews for the post were held by the public appointments service (PAS) in November 2008 and two appointees were panelled.