Liam Burke
Ceist:27 Mr. L. Burke asked the Minister for Health the action, if any, he proposes to take following a decision by consultant orthopaedic surgeons in St. Mary's Hospital, Cork, not to carry out further operations there.
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27 Mr. L. Burke asked the Minister for Health the action, if any, he proposes to take following a decision by consultant orthopaedic surgeons in St. Mary's Hospital, Cork, not to carry out further operations there.
75 Mr. Lowry asked the Minister for Health the action he proposes to take following a decision by consultant orthopaedic surgeons in St. Mary's Hospital, Cork, not to carry out further operations there.
98 Mr. Allen asked the Minister for Health if he will make a statement on the closure of the operating theatres in St. Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital, Cork, and the cessation of hip operations.
I propose to take Questions Nos. 27, 75 and 98 together.
As the Deputies will be aware, approval was given to the Southern Health Board by my Department to provide new clean air theatre facilities at St. Mary's Orthopaedic Hospital, Gurranebraher, at a cost of nearly £1 million. Work on the project commenced recently.
The contract period of the project is 40 weeks and I understand that the contract was structured in order to facilitate the continued functioning of the theatres for all but four to six weeks of the contract period. Representatives of the consultant medical staff were included in the project team which planned the development over many months.