Army helped transfer cancer equipment from the Mercy Hospital to new oncology day ward in UCC

Left - right: Valerie O'Mahony, Oncology Clinical Nurse Manager II; Margaret McKiernan, Director of Nursing; Dr Derek Power, Oncology Consultant; Nuala Walshe, Clinical Skills Manager, UCC; Marie O’Connor Oncology Staff Nurse; Professor Josephine Hegarty, Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery, UCC; Dr Ayman Amasayb, Oncology Registrar.

A novel approach to reducing the risk to cancer patients of contracting Covid-19 has seen the oncology day ward at the Mercy University Hospital (MUH) transfer lock, stock and barrel to a simulated nursing centre at University College Cork (UCC).

This week, doctors and nurses from the oncology ward at MUH began treating patients on simulated wards at University College Cork’s (UCC) School of Nursing and Midwifery in the Brookfield complex on College Road.