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PEH hydrotherapy pool is closed permanently

A STATE-OF-THE-ART hydrotherapy pool at the hospital has been lying idle for more than a year, it has been revealed.

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And Health and Social Services has confirmed that the four-year-old facility, which is part of the new clinical block, has now been closed permanently.

The department said the closure would cut recurring costs of around £22,000 a year.

It revealed that the pool was closed temporarily at the end of 2012 as the department introduced cost-saving measures to reduce its predicted £2.5m. overspend for that year. Those measures later led to the resignations of the department's then minister, Deputy Hunter Adam, and the rest of the board.

The pool continued to be maintained, but at a lower temperature, during 2013, said a spokesman.

But in October last year it was decided that the pool should close permanently because of less demand.

It was used for just two years.

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