State Pathologists Office to move post mortems away from University Hospital Waterford over morgue issues

Post mortems are no longer to be carried out University Hospital Waterford mortuary in State cases, according to gardaí.

State Pathologists Office to move post mortems away from University Hospital Waterford over morgue issues

Post mortems are no longer to be carried out University Hospital Waterford mortuary in State cases, according to gardaí.

Instead, post mortems on bodies needed for criminal investigations in the South-east will now go to the city morgue in Dublin, due to contamination fears of potential evidence.

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