Another Neary scandal a possibility, says health watchdog

THE head of a health watchdog has not ruled out the possibility of another scandal of the scale that resulted in more than 200 women having their wombs needlessly removed.

Dr Tracey Cooper, chief executive of the Health Information and Quality Authority, said she could “never say never” to another Dr Michael Neary scenario, the doctor at the centre of one of the country’s biggest medical scandals. While working at Our Lady of Lourdes

Hospital in Drogheda, the disgraced obstetrician needlessly removed the wombs and/or ovaries of up to 250 women.