Harney rules out public inquiry into baby scan controversy

HEALTH Minister Mary Harney yesterday ruled out a public inquiry into the pregnancy scan misdiagnosis controversy.

She said that Ireland remains one of the safest places in the world to give birth and the review of all the cases which occurred in the last five years was a sufficient response.

“Professor Michael Turner, a former master of the Coombe and one of the leading obstetricians in the country – a world-class obstetrician – made it clear that a public inquiry wouldn’t be appropriate, and that a five-year review was what should happen,” the minister said in Galway.