MEDICAL and nursing staff at a Tipperary hospital are to join with a local hospital action group to develop and fund a €50,000 blueprint on how their hospital should be developed.

The family of the seventy-year-old man who died because his local hospital could not carry out life-saving surgery, are demanding a meeting with Mary Harney.

HOSPITAL campaigners have refused to be reassured by the ordering of an internal report into the latest death of a patient denied treatment at Monaghan General Hospital.

COMMUNITIES in Monaghan are pleading with the Health Service Executive to drop plans to downgrade smaller hospitals following the death of a two-week-old baby who had to endure a two-hour ambulance journey to Dublin because there was no local neo-natal intensive care unit.

LOBBYISTS campaigning against the downgrading of small hospitals claim there are community groups around the country ready to mobilise at a moment’s notice to oppose the implementation of the Hanly reform of the health service.

A HOSPITAL which could not accept patients arriving in ambulances for more than two years will resume admitting emergency cases today, but will not admit children.

THE restoration of 24-hour accident and emergency services to crisis-hit Monaghan General Hospital may not be sufficient to prevent a repeat of the Bronagh Livingstone tragedy, campaigners warned yesterday.

CAVAN General Hospital remained on call for emergency surgery last night despite the suspension of two of its three consultant surgeons.

CAMPAIGNERS calling for the restoration of full maternity services to Monaghan General Hospital have accused the Government of playing Russian roulette with the lives of mothers and babies.

THE hospital at the centre of the baby Bronagh Livingstone controversy is without out-of-hours maintenance cover in a dispute with electricians and technicians over on-call payments.

Minister for Health Micheál Martin has said that he believes that no attempt should have been made to transfer Denise Livingston from Monaghan hospital when she arrived there in the later stages of labour.

The family of the premature baby who died last week when her mother gave birth in an ambulance having been refused treatment at Monaghan General Hospital, have reacted angrily to the publication of an independent report into her death.

An independent report into the death of baby Bronagh Livingstone has found that her mother, Denise, should not have been transferred to Cavan Hospital, following her arrival in the late stages of delivery at Monaghan General.

THE conflicting versions of events in the two reports into the death of premature baby Bronagh Livingstone were deeply disturbing, opposition parties said last night.

The Health Minister, Micheal Martin, will hold a meeting with the family of the Monaghan new-born who died after her mother was turned away from Monaghan Hospital last week.