Elderly patients being sent home as beds lie empty in Kerry community hospitals, council hears

More than two dozen beds across two new multi-million euro community hospitals in Kerry are lying empty, and have never been filled, while elderly are being sent home or to facilities mile from their home towns, a council meeting has been told.

The €8m, 40-bed Kenmare Community Hospital opened in 2013 after years of political wrangling and campaigning with rival politicians racing to claim credit for the facility.