Patients’ records dumped in alleyway

AN investigation by the Health Service Executive (HSE) is under way after hospital patients’ medical details were found dumped in an alleyway.

Several sheets of paper from the office of a doctor at Letterkenny General Hospital were discovered by a member of the public who realised the information was personal and sensitive.

The man made the baffling discovery across the border in Derry in the residential Gartan Square area of the city and handed them in to his local radio station which alerted the HSE.