€90k report into 2006 hospital death not yet published

HEALTH Minister James Reilly is being asked to explain why details of an inquiry costing more than €90,000 have still not been made public — nearly five years after an elderly patient’s death at a Co Cork hospital.

€90k report into 2006 hospital death  not yet published

The HSE South launched an investigation shortly after Hannah Comber, 75, died at Heatherside Hospital, near Buttevant, in June 2006.

On the night she died, the psycho-geriatric patient had been restless and staff removed her to a day room where they put her in a chair and attached a restraining belt.

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