Concern over 3D foetus scan industry

ONE of the country’s top obstetricians has said he has misgivings about the growing 3-D ultrasound industry which has mushroomed in this country in recent years and sees women paying over 150 for a 20-minute DVD of their baby in the womb.

Chairman of the department of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Royal College of Surgeons, Mr Fergal Malone, who works at the Rotunda in Dublin, said a number of distraught patients contacted him after they were alerted to potential abnormalities at one of the commercial scanning centres.

“We live in a consumerist society and there is clearly a demand for such services and that’s fine but as long as they are done with quality control.