More incompetence costs taxpayers dearly

I was angered to read the second front-page story for last Saturday’s edition ‘€140k for woman who had swab left inside her’ (Irish Examiner, July 4). 

Yet again there has been a major medical blunder and, yet again, decent taxpayers, usually including the victim, will have to pick up the cost.

Where is the name of the person responsible for the blundering? It was not the hospital building or the equipment that was faulty. It was a person, or persons, who should be fired for negligence or, at the very least, forced to pay the damages out of their huge salaries.