HSE accused of ‘selectively leaking’ report into woman’s death in hospital

THE Health Service Executive has been accused of “selectively leaking” a report into the death of a 75-year-old woman so it hangs “like a sword” over staff of the Cork hospital where she died.

Local Labour TD Sean Sherlock also claimed the HSE was using Hannah Comber’s death at Heatherside hospital near Doneraile in June 2006 as an excuse not to admit any new patients to the facility.

The incident was the subject of an almost three-year independent investigation established by the HSE.