A group campaigning for proper hospital services in the north-east of the country has called on the executive of the local health board to resign.

SURGICAL services at Cavan General Hospital are continuing to nosedive despite repeated recommendations for ways to improve the situation, the latest in a series of damning reports warns.

A senior doctor at Cavan General Hospital today denied that the surgical unit was in a dysfunctional state.

A team of medical professionals will make a second inspection of Cavan General Hospital to ensure problems have been addressed, it was confirmed tonight.

THE hospital where a Cavan schoolgirl died after a series of failures by medics and managers must be given the money to hire key personnel, the Medical Council has said.

THE chief executive of the North Eastern Health Board, at the centre of much controversy in recent years, yesterday hit back at negative reporting by the media about its hospitals, including Our Lady of Lourdes in Drogheda and Cavan General Hospital.

THE inquest into the death of nine-year-old Frances Sheridan, who died 36 hours after being released from hospital, was adjourned yesterday as the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has still to decide whether anyone will face charges in connection with the incident.

THE Medical Council gave prior warning about difficulties at Cavan General Hospital which sent tragic schoolgirl Frances Sheridan home with a fatal condition after misdiagnosing her as having a tummy bug.

EFFORTS by haemophiliacs to sue the drug companies responsible for infecting them with contaminated blood were yesterday stalled once more by the Government.

Trust in medical professionals should be at the core of our health service, but in the tragic case of nine-year-old Frances Sheridan it was misplaced.

A SENIOR doctor at the hospital which admitted failing to take proper care of schoolgirl Frances Sheridan before she died has said problems identified in her case are repeated in all accident and emergency departments.

A NINE-YEAR-OLD girl who died after being misdiagnosed by two inexperienced junior doctors as having a tummy bug might have been saved if senior staff had been consulted.

A nine-year-old girl who died days after being released from Cavan General Hospital was not cared for properly, a report said tonight.

The North Eastern Health Board’s report into the death of a nine-year-old girl following an appendix operation at Cavan General Hospital is due to be published later today.

THE birth of a baby in an ambulance while in transit between hospitals in Monaghan and Cavan yesterday highlights major flaws in the Hanly Report.