Cystic fibrosis unit at CUH a dream come true for Joe

IT’S a story familiar to our health system: a reliance on the goodwill of others to help provide an essential service. In this case, a new unit for adults with cystic fibrosis.

Five years after Kerryman Joe Browne vowed his own young son would not end up in the kind of facilities then on offer to CF patients at Cork University Hospital (CUH), his Build4Life charity witnessed the opening of a day centre for CF patients at the hospital yesterday.

The unit, a partnership between CUH and Build4Life, treated its first patient four years after fundraising began.