Roadside birth puts pressure on Hanly

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.

Opponents of the Government's controversial health reform programme yesterday made the claim. The association of groups are opposed to the Government's plans to centralise acute hospital care into 12 regional centres.

The latest incident comes just over a year after baby Bronagh Livingstone died after her mother prematurely gave birth en route between the two hospitals.