Government defends CUH laboratories

ALLEGATIONS of serious flaws in the laboratory system at Cork University Hospital (CUH) are “neither credible nor grounded in reality”, the Government insisted last night.

Junior health minister Jimmy Devins told the Dáil that three laboratories at CUH had achieved “a high level of clinical pathology and accreditation” and a fourth was awaiting accreditation.

He was responding to questions from Fine Gael TD Bernard Allen about the cancer misdiagnosis scare at the hospital.