Liquidator expected to be appointed to Mahon private hospital

THE final death-knell for a Cork private hospital will sound in the next few days when a liquidator is appointed to the €90 million facility owned by Sheehan Medical.

The company could not get VHI to cover the treatment of patients at the Cork Medical Centre, which opened last October but was forced to close earlier this month with the loss of 75 jobs.

Despite discussions since then with the Government about use of the hospital to treat public patients, including possible use by the National Treatment Purchase Fund, the owners have been in talks in the past week with a number of accountancy firms about acting as liquidator.