‘You can get a vet faster than a doctor’

A sick animal can be treated quicker in some parts of Co Cork than a sick person, according to county councillors.

They are to ask senior representatives from SouthDoc and the HSE to attend a forthcoming council meeting to discuss what councillors feel is a less than adequate out-of-hours medical service being provided in certain parts of the county.

Cllr Kevin Murphy (FG) said he was very concerned that the SouthDoc centre in Kinsale had been closed and that patients from that area were now having to rely on the SouthDoc centre in Bandon.