Health board denies hospital lacks emergency service

HEALTH board officials have insisted emergency treatment will continue at Cavan General Hospital despite leaked correspondence which calls into question the hospital's ability to provide the service given a staffing crisis.

The board also denied there were plans to suspend elective surgery at the hospital, which had to turn away patients for a week last month following the suspension of two out of its three consultant surgeons over a row in which both men have made allegations about the behaviour of the other.

A letter leaked to the Irish Medical News showed the medical advisor to the North Eastern Health Board,