HSE is failing both the living and the dead in South East, say health group

The HSE is failing both the living and the dead in the South East says the PRO for Health Equality, Matt Shanahan.

His comment to the Pat Kenny Show on Newstalk follows revelations that dead bodies have been left lying on trolleys at University Hospital Waterford (UHW), leaking bodily fluids on to corridors and making closed-coffin funerals unavoidable in some cases.