Sir Alex cuts ribbon at new £1m hospital unit

FORMER Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson has officially opened the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust’s new £1m Bronchoscopy Unit at Wythenshawe.

The unit has been welcoming patients since July this year and the facility is expected to treble the number of patients to be treated at UHSM.

It was developed in partnership with UHSM and the Medicines Evaluation Unit whose architects were responsible for its design from inception to completion.

The unit is believed to be the largest of its kind in the country and provides four consulting rooms, three procedure rooms, an eight-bed recovery ward for out-patient/day-patient use and ancillary accommodation.

The scheme adjoins the existing UHSM North West Lung Centre and will compliment development along Southmoor Road as a research corridor of national significance.

MHA director, Jimmy Lennon said: “We are delighted to have been able to assist UHSM and the MEU in bringing this project to completion and we were pleased to receive extremely positive feedback from both the Hospital Trust and the users at today’s opening ceremony.

“We have seen first-hand the difference this Unit is making to people’s lives and are proud to have contributed to it.”