No disclosure on fate of doctors after hospital death
The Council’s Fitness to Practice Committee has been examining an independent report into the death of Pat Joe Walsh but declined to comment yesterday on a newspaper report that a decision had been made not to take any action against the named doctors.
Mr Walsh, 75, a widower and retired farmer from Killanny, Carrickmacross, County Monaghan, died in October 2005 from a bleeding ulcer while recovering after a hip replacement operation. The hospital only has daytime theatre hours and is not allowed to carry out emergency surgery but doctors there were unable to find another hospital in the region to take Mr Walsh.
