CUH children’s unit gets go-ahead

A new 80-bed state-of-the-art children’s unit has been approved to replace substandard paediatric accommodation at Cork University Hospital (CUH).

The new unit will include single ensuite rooms, a significant improvement on the existing 73-bed facility where even the isolation rooms housing children with compromised immune systems are not ensuite.

The project has been approved in principle by the HSE’s national capital steering group and the next step is to secure funding. The unit will form phase 2 of a three-phrase development of the children’s unit.