From storeroom to playroom .... teenager’s design lifts spirits of young cancer patients in Cork

A teenager’s inspired make-over of a hospital storeroom will help make treatment for young cancer patients a little easier to bear.

From storeroom to playroom .... teenager’s design lifts spirits of young cancer patients in Cork

Emma O’Callaghan, 17, from Mallow, Co Cork, said she was delighted, as her new circus-themed family room in the Mercy Hospital’s Children’s Leukaemia Unit in Cork — the largest such unit outside Dublin’s Crumlin hospital — was unveiled yesterday.

Parents of children attending the unit said it will have a positive impact.

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