Relatives want Hiqa to investigate Cork nursing home deaths

Ballynoe Nursing Home: Four families are planning to sue for the allegedly wrongful deaths of family members, and for alleged negligence.

Relatives of some of the residents of a Cork nursing home who died of Covid-19 want the health watchdog Hiqa to launch an investigation into their deaths.

The families want the Health Information and Quality Authority to explain how the deadly virus spread through the 51-bed Ballynoe Nursing Home, after an outbreak in mid-January.