Campaigners welcome backing for expanded children’s services at Cork hospital

“Every child deserves to have the best childhood. You never know when you are going to need the services provided by the new hospital.” 

Ireland rugby star Peter O'Mahony and Miss Cork, Saoirse O'Shaughnessy, a Healthcare Assistant in CUH Emergency Department visiting Josh Randalls, six, in the Children's Puffin Ward at CUH to celebrate the granting of planning permission for the new Children's Hospital. Issue date: Monday August 15, 2022. Picture: Brian Lougheed

Healthcare workers and campaigners have welcomed a local authority’s approval of an application to expand paediatric services at Cork University Hospital (CUH).

Proposals were submitted seeking permission from Cork City Council to build a five-storey extension at the hospital to ensure the most acute care for sick children in the Munster area can be provided at CUH.