Major funding boost for Mallow hospital
More than €7 million is set to be injected into Mallow General Hospital as part of the 2025 HSE Capital Plan.
The funding has specifically been provided for the fit out the first floor of the new extension built during Covid to provide a 24-bed inpatient ward at the hospital. The funding will also provide for the fit out the ground floor to provide outpatient/day clinic ward with 10 clinical rooms and the establishment of an obesity clinic.
The new building at Mallow General Hospital has four floors with floors two and three already in use.
Cork North West Fine Fine Gael TD John Paul O’ Shea welcomed the recent publication of the Health Service Executive’s Capital Plan for 2025 by his colleague Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill TD and within that plan was the funding of more than €7 million which is to be provided to Capital Projects at Mallow General Hospital.
He said: “This is a very positive investment for Mallow General Hospital by our Government. This extension was built during Covid times and its great now to see this part of the project moving forward.
“The different wards are very busy in Mallow General Hospital and has a very busy Local Injury Unit open to the public each day. I look forward to seeing this project progress during 2025.”
Mallow General Hospital is a model 2 hospital and is part of the Cork University Hospital Group.
The hospital is an acute general hospital providing inpatient, outpatient and day patient services.
Services include acute in-patient medicine, a medical assessment unit, an injury unit, an endoscopy suite and theatre.
Hospital services are supported by radiology, laboratory, physiotherapy, cardiac technician, heart failure clinic, pulmonary function lab and sleep studies service, speech and language therapy and dietetics.
He concluded: “Mallow General plays an integral role in the provision of acute hospital services to the population of Cork and indeed catchment areas outside of the county such as Waterford, Limerick and Kerry. I welcome the further investment in the hospital for 2025 and once operational, the entire new building will be providing many vital services to the people of the area.
“The staff there do great work and there is always such positive feedback from the patients there. I look forward to this continuing into the future,” he added.