IRELAND
Irish Times
Dr Peter Boylan
A new national maternity hospital is badly needed to serve the interests of the women and infants of Ireland. There is no argument about this.
Despite clinical outcomes that compare with the best in the world, there are obvious infrastructural deficiencies in the existing building, on Holles Street in Dublin.
The design of the hospital planned for the Elm Park campus, next to St Vincent’s University Hospital, is superb.
Huge credit is due to those who have invested so much time and effort in the project. It is to be hoped that planning permission will soon be granted. …
Modern maternity and gynaecological care encompasses contraception, sterilisation, IVF, gender reassignment surgery and abortion, as well as the usual day-to-day activities of a busy maternity hospital.
Are we seriously expected to believe that if the hospital goes ahead according to the proposed arrangement it will be the only maternity hospital in the world owned by the Catholic Church, and run by a company owned by the Catholic Church, that will allow these procedures? This stretches credibility to breaking point. Indeed it would seem to be naive.
The board of any hospital oversees, in a corporate sense, the clinical work of the hospital.
The proposed structure means that the four directors nominated by St Vincent’s Healthcare Group will have fundamental religious objections to a significant part of the clinical work of the hospital.
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