New Limerick surgical hub to miss May opening deadline and only get half the funding it needs to operate

Facility to ease pressure on UHL by providing day surgery will now not open before year end

Health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said the hub would improve access to day surgery in multiple surgical specialists, as it would be 'operating as a satellite' of UHL. Picture: Dan Linehan

A new surgical hub to alleviate pressure on University Hospital Limerick (UHL) will open before the end of year, after missing the May deadline.

Located at the former Scoil Carmel site on O’Connell Avenue in the city, the facility was due to open this month, while it had emerged the hub would only get half the funding it requires to operate.