Action committee forms to defend Macroom hospital from closure threat

An action committee has been set up to “safeguard and protect” a community hospital in mid-Cork.

With hundreds of beds to be lost countrywide in the near future, a public meeting in Macroom was told that the retention of district hospitals “would be a case of whichever community stands up the strongest” to the HSE and the Government.

Des O’Grady told the meeting: “History should tell us that where small hospitals are concerned, nothing happens until it happens, and when it happens, it is the worst news.”