No plan to replace inadequate children’s ward in Tipperary

The HSE has no timeframe for the replacement of a busy children’s hospital ward which has been condemned as “not fit for purpose”.

A Hiqa report earlier this month said the 15-bed paediatric ward at South Tipperary General Hospital, in Clonmel, had been “identified by the hospital” as “not fit for purpose” and a “longstanding issue over a number of years”.

The HSE said that its estates department and the South/South West Hospital Group “recognise” that the paediatric unit in Clonmel needs to be replaced, and the ward will be included in the hospital’s development control plan, “currently being devised”.