Haemophilia centre at CUH opens 5 years after damning services report

HEALTH Minister Dr James Reilly will open a new haemophilia centre at Cork University Hospital today — five years after a study found that services at the hospital for people with bleeding disorders were “grossly inadequate”.

The audit, published in November 2006, found there was no dedicated space for care of patients at the centre that was in stark contrast to the excellent haemophilia facilities in Dublin.

The auditors, who returned to the hospital in 2008, found very little had changed and that conditions at the centre were still below standard.