Experts to address TB fears after outbreak

EXPERTS in public health medicine, disease surveillance and respiratory illness will gather in Cork on Monday night to address parents of children attending two creches where 19 people have been diagnosed with TB.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) are preparing to fly in Dr Philip Monk, a British-based consultant in communicable disease control, to form part of the seven-strong consultant line up who will attend the meeting at the Silversprings Moran Hotel in Cork city.

The other members of the HSE’s high-level Outbreak Control Team and advisory group to address the meeting include: Dr Margaret O’Sullivan, consultant in public health medicine, HSE in Cork; Dr Darina O’Flanagan, director, Health Protection Surveillance Centre; Dr Muireann Ni Chroinin, paediatric consultant, CUH; Dr Terry O’Connor, consultant respiratory physician, Mercy University Hospital; Dr Elizabeth Keane, director of public health medicine, HSE in Cork and Dr Patrick Wall, professor of public health, UCD School of Public Health and Population Science, chair.