‘Lack of senior doctors commonplace’
Dr Alan Finan, a consultant paediatrician and secretary of the medical board at Cavan General Hospital where the nine-year-old’s condition was misdiagnosed, said an inadequacy of senior doctors was commonplace throughout the country’s hospitals.
“There is a national issue in relation to A&E generally,” he told RTÉ radio. “A&E is one of the highest risk locations and they are staffed on a 24 hour basis by relatively junior doctors and there is a relatively poor level of supervision because there is insufficient senior staff.”