A PROPOSED cross-border
radiotherapy centre for the North West at
Altnagelvin Hospital will be discussed again next
week by the island's two health ministers.
That's according to Senator Brian O'Domhnaill who
quizzed Health Minister Mary Harney in the Seanad
about progress on the centre.
“Minister Harney told me that she is due to meet
with Minister McGimpsey next week in the North South
Ministerial Council," said Senator O'Domhnaill.
“She told me that a Centre of Excellence was
established by the Northern authorities in Belfast
ten years ago and that it is their intention to
locate another centre in the western side of the
North as a satellite of Belfast.
“Minister Harney has offered to work with the
Northern authorities on the capital cost for such a
centre or in procuring services from each other.”
The Senator said Ms. Harney assured him that she
wanted to see that happen "as quickly as possible".
He said she acknowledged that real issues of
peripherality arose in the case of Donegal. |
