Bandon locals rally to raise €240k for hospital dayroom

Construction of a €3.44m community hospital has been completed — but locals have to raise funds to build a dayroom for the facility.

Around €240,000 has to be raised by the Friends of Bandon Community Hospital to fund the construction of a dayroom at the new complex in the West Cork town, as the Government will not pay for one.

Patricia Brennan, spokeswoman for the board of directors of the Friends of Bandon Community Hospital which is overseeing the fund-raising campaign for the new dayroom, said the group was happy to raise the funds.