Striking doctors agree to investigate new SARS suspect

STRIKING public health doctors last night agreed to become involved in the investigation of a new suspect case of SARS in a Dublin hospital.

An elderly woman, who recently returned from Toronto, was last night being transferred to an isolation unit at the Mater Hospital, having earlier attended the casualty unit at St Vincent’s Hospital.

The woman’s transfer was taking place just as the talks between public health doctors and the Health Service Employers Agency (HSEA) ended without any progress being made, according to the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO).