IRELAND
RTE News
The Irish Medical Organisation has said the project for the new national maternity hospital seems to have been very badly handled.
Earlier this week, it emerged that the Religious Sisters of Charity was to be given ownership of the €300m taxpayer-funded hospital because it owns the land on which it is to be built.
The new hospital is to be built on the campus of St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin.
Dr Ann Hogan, the IMO’s new president, said it was very distressing and could mean a delay in the new facility that is so badly needed for women and babies.
Speaking at the union’s annual general meeting in Galway, she said both Minister for Health Simon Harris and the Master of Holles Street Hospital Dr Rhona Mahony had given assurances that they had the range of medical services and independence of the facility copper fastened and now there was uncertainty.
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