CUHoney: Cork hospital installs hives to ease children’s bee and wasp sting fears

Cork University Hospital has become home to tens of thousands of honeybees in a unique apiary project

Iulia, 10, and seven-year-old Eric Dumitrescu, along with their mother Anda who works in the of the Department of Paediatrics at UCC. Picture:  (Brian Lougheed/PA

A Cork hospital has installed beehives to ease the fears of children who have suffered life-threatening reactions to bee and wasp stings.

Cork University Hospital (CUH) has become home to tens of thousands of honeybees in a unique apiary project.