Anger 'ready to burst' over Monaghan hospital

HOSPITAL campaigners have refused to be reassured by the ordering of an internal report into the latest death of a patient denied treatment at Monaghan General Hospital.

They have called instead for an independent inquiry by an external investigator and warned that public anger in the area over the latest tragedy was now barely containable.

The latest victim, 70-year-old Patrick Walsh from Carrickmacross, died at Monaghan General in the early hours of Friday morning after he was denied routine surgery for a bleeding ulcer because cutbacks meant theatre nurses were only insured to work up to 5pm.