Welcome breakthrough

WITH good news as rare as hen’s teeth these days, it’s refreshing to read of a hi-tech breakthrough that brings hope to thousands of women.

It is also heartening that the enlightening story involves an arm of the much-criticised HSE.

It concerns baby Lucy O’Mahony, her mother Anne, a team of skilled surgeons and a €2 million robotic surgical system at Cork University Hospital. With the help of the da Vinci robot, surgeons carried out a complex procedure to prolong Anne’s pregnancy, thus ensuring little Lucy’s safe arrival safe and well yesterday.