HSE contacts 540 mothers over error in baby blood group tests

The HSE has begun contacting 540 mothers and babies who may have had their blood group identified incorrectly in hospital due to a mislabelled testing kit.

The kits were used in five hospitals — Limerick, Galway, Cavan, Sligo, and Dublin’s Rotunda — between February and June.

The HSE said it had recently been notified by the Irish Medicines Board that a field safety notice had been issued as a small number of the testing kits had been mislabelled.