IRELAND
Irish Times
Fiona Gartland
Dr Peter Boylan has resigned from the board of the National Maternity Hospital (NMH), saying it is “blind to the consequences” of transferring ownership of the hospital to the religous-owned St Vincent’s Healthcare Group.
Dr Boylan, a former master of the NMH, announced his decision on Newstalk on Thursday following a meeting of the hospital’s executive board on Wednesday night over the proposed move to a site on St Vincent’s Elm Park campus, which is owned by the Sisters of Charity.
“I can’t remain a member of a board which is so blind to the consequences of its decision to transfer sole ownership of the hospital to the religious Sisters of Charity and so deaf to the concerns of the public which it serves,” he told the Pat Kenny Show.
The executive board’s deputy chairman, former High Court president Nicholas Kearns, had previously asked Dr Boylan to resign from the board after the medic criticised the move from Holles Street.
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