CUH surgery move ‘crazy’ and ‘wrong’

Cork University Hospital (CUH) is firefighting on a number of fronts following revelations that a backlog of scans went unread in radiology and that elective surgery has been cancelled for two-weeks over Christmas.

Yesterday, Fianna Fáil party leader Micheál Martin described the decision to cease all elective surgery from December 22 to January 8 as “crazy” and “wrong” given the hospital has 1,500 people on its inpatient waiting list and 24,000 on its outpatient list.

“It’s shocking given that the lists are so high,” said Mr Martin.