Maternity hospital got less than half of funding needed to replace ageing equipment

In some cases, equipment at the Rotunda had reached the end of its service life in 2014 and 2015 while some items were described as 'technically obsolete'. Picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

The country’s busiest maternity hospital secured less than half the funding it sought last year for the replacement of ageing and sometimes failing equipment.

Some equipment at the Rotunda had reached the end of its service life in 2014 and 2015 while some items were described as “technically obsolete”.