Hospital closure left staff ‘high and dry’

STAFF and creditors of a failed €90 million private hospital in Cork expressed disappointment and anger over its closure that has left them “high and dry”.

About 70 people attended a creditors’ meeting held by KPMG liquidators who were appointed to the Cork Medical Centre (CMC) which closed in March, just five months after it opened.

The company, based in Mahon, had promised to employ close to 500 staff. In the end, it employed just over 70 but never had a patient stay overnight.