Location of new €100m hospital for Cork 'not a northside-southside debate'
St Stephen's Hospital site in Glanmire was confirmed by Health Minister Stephen Donnelly this week as the site of Cork's new elective hospital.
Another hospital site selection row is looming following confirmation that an isolated health campus on the eastern fringes of Cork city, 20kms from the region's main tertiary hospital and poorly served by public transport, has been chosen as the site for the city’s new €100m elective hospital.
Politicians and medics have already begun to voice concerns about the decision to confirm the vast state-owned Sarsfield Court site in Glanmire as the selected location for the new hospital, which will have 10 surgical theatres and could have between 400 and 600 beds to cater for day-care and in-patient cases.
