Female health ranks abysmally low at Cork University Hospital campus

CUMH was ‘an exemplar of how maternity services should not work and how they don’t work well’, writes Alison O’Connor

AS a young journalist I remember writing a story on the lack of availability of pain killing epidurals to women giving birth in Cork city.

It was like a version of an Irish joke. If memory serves me public patients in the Erinville Hospital could get an epidural if they were lucky enough to give birth on a Monday and a Wednesday, and those in St Finbarr’s on a Tuesday and a Thursday.