INMO calls for fire safety inspection of Cork University Hospital after blaze

CUH described it as a small fire, and thanked its staff, the National Ambulance Service, and Cork City Fire Brigade for their quick response. Picture: Larry Cummins

The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) has called for a fire safety inspection of Cork University Hospital (CUH) following a fire in its overcrowded emergency department (ED).

The union’s assistant director of human relations in Cork and Kerry, Colm Porter, said the hospital could have faced a much more significant event on Wednesday if it had not been for the swift actions of a paramedic who used a fire extinguisher to put the fire out.