TIED UP IN CONTROVERSY St Vincent’s Hospital’s ‘refusal’ to carry out sterilisation procedures on women sparks outrage

By Michael Doyle
Irish Sun
April 30, 2017

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St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin which said it does not perform sterilisation procedures on women

A letter sent by the hospital to GPs stating it didn’t carry out tubal ligations

DOCTORS and maternity groups have blasted St Vincent’s Hospital ‘refusal’ to carry out sterilisation procedures on women.

A letter to GPs claimed the hospital didn’t carry out tubal ligations — but that the same medical experts could carry out such ops in the National Maternity Hospital.

Leading oncologist Professor John Crown described the situation at the Catholic Sisters of Charity-owned Dublin hospital yesterday as “sectarianism”.

He said: “I have first-hand seen some evidence of sectarianism in the way the institution does its business — there is simply no escaping that.”

He told Ivan Yates on Newstalk radio: “This very week; GPs have been ­contacting me showing me letters they’d received saying; ‘No we do not do tubal-ligations in St Vincent’s, we’ll take them someplace else’.”

The Association for Improvement to Maternity Services also retweeted a copy of the letter which indicated it was sent from the hospital’s gynaecology clinic.

AIMS spokeswoman Krysia Lynch also demanded answers as to what procedures will be allowed at the new maternity hospital to be based on the Vincent’s campus.

She said: “We call on the Religious Sisters of Charity to detail exactly what will and won’t be possible at the ­hospital.”

St Vincent’s University Hospital last year rejected claims it bans sterilisation.

A spokesman said: “There is no prohibition on any medical procedure, whether elective or emergency, that is clinically indicated, including vasectomy or tubal ligation.”