Women still in great distress at prospect of labouring alone

Krysia Lynch, chairperson of AIMS Ireland, the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services in Ireland.

A campaign group for better maternity services has called on the health minister and HSE to support easing restrictions for pregnant women and their partners.

The health service has come under pressure from the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services in Ireland (AIMS Ireland), for treating the partners of pregnant women as “visitors”.