CUH paediatric outpatients unit ‘is only the beginning’

It’s just what the doctor ordered, the colourful creation that is the new €13m paediatric outpatient unit at Cork University Hospital (CUH). All that’s needed now is another €17m to bring the inpatient accommodation up to scratch.

That was the message for Taoiseach Enda Kenny who cut the ribbon on the new unit yesterday, where children with cystic fibrosis and diabetes will have dedicated treatment rooms; where researchers will study the brainwaves of sleeping babies to follow their neuro- developmental progress and where scientists will have a biobank to store blood and tissue samples.