New Cork hospital badly needed, committee told

A new hospital is urgently needed in Cork, the head of an advisory board that drove a major health reform project has told an Oireachtas committee.

The need for the hospital to replace two facilities which are centuries old to take some of the pressure off Cork University Hospital was highlighted in a report published by the advisory board five years ago.

Developer Michael O’Flynn, who chaired a project on the reconfiguration of acute hospital services in Cork and Kerry, appealed for political support for the new hospital at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health and Children yesterday.