CUMH fights for own chief separate to CUH

The difficulties that public patients have in accessing 20-week foetal anomaly scans, combined with unfeasibly large gynaecology waiting lists, bolster the case for independent governance of Cork University Maternity Hospital.

Louise Kenny, professor of obstetrics at University College Cork (UCC) said there was a two-tier system in respect of the scans “and the poor are disadvantaged”.

Currently, less than half of women attending CUMH can access the anomaly scans, posing “an unacceptable level of risk”, said Prof Kenny.