Only half of Munster cancer centres offer free parking to patients

Cancer patients attending Cork University Hospital are offered a reduced car parking rate, with chemotherapy patients paying €5 daily instead of the hourly rate of €2.70. Picture: Dan Linehan

Only half of the six cancer centres in Munster offer free parking to vulnerable patients, and the Irish Cancer Society has called for this inequity to be addressed.

A person’s Eircode should not determine the costs they face as cancer patients, said CEO Averil Power, as a new national map published by the Irish Cancer Society reveals stark disparities.