Groups count needless deaths
Last Friday, Mr Walsh became the latest addition to a tragic list drawn up by campaigners in Monaghan who have taken on the grim job of recording cases of patients who die because their local hospital cannot, or is not allowed, treat them.
The 70-year-old widower from Carrickmacross died from a bleeding ulcer while staff at Monaghan General Hospital waited anxiously for a phone call from any one of three other hospitals they had contacted to look for a surgical bed for him.