HSE grave markings ‘deplorable’

THE Health Service Executive (South) has been criticised for its “deplorable” failure to properly mark the graves of some people who die in its care.

The criticism came from a number of Cork county councillors who said the practice of burying those without relatives in so-called pauper’s graves and not putting up a plaque to their memory had to stop.

Councillors agreed to formally write to the HSE to change the practice after a motion was put down by Cllr Gerry Kelly (FG).