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Galway County Council need to make their intentions clear regarding the acquistion of the former health centre at Aughrim if it is top be retained for community use, the regional health forum was told.

Additional staff car parking is expected to be provided on the site of the former Merlin Park mortuary which is due to be demolished, a meeting of the HSE West’s regional health forum was told this week.

Preliminary designs for a new emergency department and medical assessment unit at Mayo University Hospital are expected to be ready by the end of quarter two of this year.

Construction on the new Primary Care Centre for Oranmore will commence before next summer, this week’s meeting of the Regional Health Forum was told.

The works to the radiology department at Portiuncula University Hospital are due to be completed by late February 2021. Prequalification documentation is due to be published on etenders for the main construction works to deliver the new 50 bed ward block in early January 2021.

The PPP contracts to build new Primary Care Centres should include the flexibility to be amended to include new health facilities to meet demand for services, this week’s meeting of the Regional Health Forum was told.

The planned elective hospital will be built on the Merlin Park campus and will be subject to capital funding in 2021/2022, the regional health forum heard this week.

A former county mayor and sitting councillor has voiced concern that it could be 2024 before patients can avail of a new emergency department at the west’s biggest hospital.

A delay in the construction of modular theatres at Merlin Park Hospital has been described as a serious “cock-up” and “a disaster”.