Medical council chief’s remarks ‘disingenuous’

HEALTH Minister Micheál Martin launched a stinging attack on the head of the Irish Medical Council yesterday after Monday’s Prime Time investigation which found medical errors kill 2,000 people a year.

Mr Martin described as ‘disingenuous’, Professor Gerard Bury’s remarks that the Government had ignored the council’s proposals for a system of testing medical competence.

“He is wrong on that, and he knows it,” Mr Martin said on RTÉ radio.