'Disgraceful': Vicky Phelan slams response to mortuary conditions at University Hospital Waterford

Vicky Phelan has slammed reports that hospital chiefs claim they did not receive complaints about how bodies are stored in its mortuary.

Four pathologists working at University Hospital Waterford (UHW) wrote to the South/South West Hospital Group, last October detailing how dead bodies had to be left on mortuary trolleys for long periods of time, due to lack of capacity, and that bodily fluids sometimes leaked onto the floor.