Asbestos probe at Kerry General hospital
A ward and the admissions area are currently being prepared for a revamp. Further areas are set for renovation in the new year at a total cost of around €800,000.
However at a meeting last week with directors of nursing, the Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) raised concerns that asbestos may have been used in the original building of the unit in the 1980s and said they were informing the Health and Safety Authority. A PNA spokesman in Kerry, Cormac Williams, said the union had informed the HSA because the presence of asbestos was “such an important issue” for staff and for patients and the planned works could not but have an effect on other wards in terms of dust emissions.
