Cystic fibrosis charities clash over upgrade status

Cystic Fibrosis Ireland (CFI) has come under fire from another CF charity for making public pronouncements about the dire state of paediatric facilities at Cork University Hospital (CUH) while failing to mention that a major upgrade is currently under way.

In the run up to the general election, CFI called on politicians to make CF a priority. Specifically, the charity said there was an “urgent need to drastically improve both the paediatric in-patient and out-patient facilities at Cork University Hospital (CUH) which are not fit for purpose”.

The charity said the improvements “must be a matter of priority at a Department of Health level and should not be reliant on charitable funding”. The charity singled out CUH and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin as having “major problems” in terms of infrastructural deficits for CF patients.