Review of birth outcomes will change nothing in maternity care
THERE isn’t a mention of the drug Syntocinon in the HSE’s Maternity Clinical Review of serious complaints about maternity care in nine hospitals over four decades which was published on Tuesday. Fourteen families have been issued with apologies, eight of which involve the death of a precious baby.
In all, 153 patients participated in the review process in nine hospitals: Portlaoise’s Midlands Regional Hospital, Dublin’s Rotunda and Coombe, Limerick’s University Hospital, Cork’s University Maternity Hospital, Kerry’s General Hospital, Mullingar’s Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore’s Midland Regional Hospital and Galway’s University Hospital.
