Call for probe into organ transport system

The head of a private ambulance firm involved in all of the State’s organ transport missions has called on HIQA to probe what he said has become a “chaotic” organ transport co-ordination system.

David Hall, who runs Lifeline Ambulance Service, made the call last night after it emerged that a dedicated team to manage the Aeromedical Co-ordination Centre has still not been appointed.

The establishment of the centre was one of the key recommendations from the HIQA inquiry report into why teenager Meadhbh McGivern from Leitrim missed out on a transplant in July 2011.