Around €100m is to be spent on improving Galway and Cork hospital facilities by the Bon Secours Health System.

According to the group, a new multi-storey car park will be constructed at its Cork site, in addition to a new 80-room wing, three new operating theatres and a specialist cancer centre. This work is valued at €85m.

Galway will benefit from a €15m investment, which will see 50 new bedrooms built, as well as a physiotherapy department and a dining room. These will all tie in with the existing hospital building.

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The development represents phase two of an overall investment of €50m at the Galway site.

Bon Secours Health System Chief Executive, Pat Lyons, said: "[This] announcement reflects our response to the growing demand from our consultants, general practitioners and patients for additional facilities and services in our hospitals.

"We are fully committed to a strategy which focuses on sustaining our business model and, indeed, protecting employment in the midst of an extremely challenging economic cycle."

Bon Secours Health System is a not-for-profit private healthcare provider. It is considered once of the largest of its kind in Ireland, comprising five hospitals in Cork, Dublin, Galway and Tralee.

(PR/BMcc)