More than 300 people are to lose their jobs after the High Court approved the appointment of provisional liquidators to the company that operates a private hospital in South County Dublin.

Nama’s decision to stop financially propping up Mount Carmel Hospital, and the jobs of more than 300 people, came after it suffered more than three years of losses since it acquired the hospital’s loans in 2010.

A CARDIAC patient was found dead on the floor of a hospital toilet after a machine monitoring his heart rate was left unsupervised.