Management should be castigated for failure to staff CF ward at CUH

We as a family appeal to Health Minister, Leo Varadkar to intervene in the delayed opening of the new cystic fibrosis/respiratory ward 5B in Cork University Hospital.

It is now time for hospital management, including CEO Tony McNamara, to be taken in hand by the department and firmly instructed on how to resolve this utterly disgraceful situation, one that after four years of planning should never have been allowed to happen.

Ward 5B, funded entirely by Build4life, an entirely voluntary cystic fibrosis charity run by family and friends of people with CF, is now completed — and yet the ward lies idle.