IRELAND
Irish Sun
By Michael Doyle
30th April 2017
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’.”
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