Portiuncula baby deaths spark renewed calls for nationwide maternity care review

The HSE has written to pregnant women due to give birth at Portiuncula to inform them of the nine reviews currently being carried out at the hospital. File photo

Safer Births Ireland has again called for a review of HSE baby deaths and injuries in the wake of the the latest probe into the treatment of nine babies at Portiuncula University Hospital.

It is the second review of its kind in just over a decade and centres around another above-normal level of babies being referred by the hospital for cooling therapy used to treat babies brain damaged due to a lack of oxygen just before or after birth.